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    Guest Authors   

• "Records and Representations," by Geoffrey Yeo, Lecturer in Archives and Records Management at University College London. This paper was given at the Conference on the Philosophy of the Archive in Edinburgh in April 2008.

• Understanding Data and Information Systems for Recordkeeping, by Philip C. Bantin, University Archivist, 
  Indiana University, Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2007. Well known for his leadership in the field of electronic records, including his leadership of the Indiana University Electronic Records Project, Bantin explores content management systems, data warehouses, relational databases — the ways an institution can organize and store its information that are changing rapidly. He provides a comprehensive guide to the new technologies that can help us better organize vital documents and information for preservation, search, and retrieval. 

• Ethics, Accountability and Recordkeeping in a Dangerous World, Facet Publishing, London, 2006, pp. 352, by Richard Cox, Professor, Archival Studies at the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences and editor of Records and Information Management Report (RIMR). This most recent book by the distinguished and prolific educator, author and editor ties together two distinct but highly related topics of ethics and accountability as they impinge on recordkeeping. Read the Table of Contents and Chapter Four, "America's Pyramids: Presidents and Their Libraries," an assessment of the history and development of presidential libraries that concludes with a most provocative proposal for re-centralization of presidential libraries in a single presidential library in or near Washington, D.C. under the National Archives and Records Administration. (An earlier version of this chapter previously appeared in Government Information Quarterly 19 (2002) 45-75.) See also Michael Moss's review of this book in the Records Management Journal. Moss raises several issues; he concludes: "Like everything Richard Cox writes this book makes you think in the way that it has made this reviewer think... He poses lots of questions in the full expectation that you may not agree and draws on a rich literature. What is more it is a good read."

    Awards Received by Papers published in MyBestDocs

• In the Guest Authors Section: 2005 ACA W. Kaye Lamb Prize for "What's History Got to Do with It?" by Tom Nesmith. Author and Associate Professor, Master's Program in Archival Studies, Department of History, University of Manitoba, received the 2005 Association of Canadian Archivists' treasured W. Kaye Lamb Prize -- named after the acclaimed Dominion Archivist of Canada (1948-68), first National Librarian of Canada (1953-67), and Society of American Archivists' president (1964-65) -- for the Archivaria article that best advances archival thinking and scholarship in Canada. 

• In the Recent Papers Section: 2005 Emerald Literati Network 2006 Records Management Journal Outstanding Paper Award for "Heritage groups challenge George W. Bush nominee for US Archivist: So What?" Authors Rick Barry and Mike Steemson received the Emerald Literati Network 2006 award, selected by election among editorial boards of the Network. The paper appeared in the Records Management Journal, Volume 15, Issue 1, 2005. It discusses issues surrounding the process for nomination of the new Archivist of the US and related organizational issues and international implications.