1. Further Consideration of Archives Issues

2. Types of Archives Size and Scope Formats – Traditional; Digital Special Purpose Resource Levels for Research

3. Searching for Archival Collections: Tools NUCMC Archive Grid

4. Collection Organization In the original records Indexing systems Filing structures During the archiving process Goals of the archivists Capacities of the archivists Format changes – digitization, culling, restrictions on use

5. Who Leaves What Kind of Records? Elites, economic, political, social Ordinary people

6. The American Case The United States made a constitutional commitment to public records: Article 1, Section 5: “Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same…” Article 1, Section 9: “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time….” Article 2, Section 3: “He [the president] shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union…”

7. Repositories of the Records of the National State National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)NARA Library of Congress (LOC) – Manuscript DivisionLOCManuscript Division

8. Examples of Specialized and Digital Archives Specialized Archives Presidential Libraries (part of NARA) Presidential Libraries The Henry Ford and Archives The Henry FordArchives Rockefeller Archive Center Digital Archives Densho National Security Archive Cold War International History Project

9. Some Examples Finding Materials at NARA Materials organized by Record Group, or agency Bureau of Labor Statistics Find an Inventory Find a Master Location Register Request the Records