The Harding Affair Letters: How One Archivist Took Every Measure Possible to Ensure Their Preservation
Pyatt, Timothy D.
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- abstract
- In the section on "Trust," the SAA Code of Ethics for Archivists state that archivists "...strive to balance the sometimes-competing interests of all stakeholders." This case study explores the balance between professional relationships and judgment that one archivist took in order to protect and insure future access to a controversial collection of letters written by a former President of the United States.
- subject
- Access Control
- Access Restrictions
- Custodial Issues
- Donor Relationships
- Ethics
- Privacy
- Professional Conduct
- Professional Judgment
- contributor
- date
- 2015-08-05T18:30:08Z (accessioned)
- 2015-08-05T18:30:08Z (available)
- 2015 (issued)
- identifier
- Pyatt, Timothy D. (2015, April). "The Harding Affair Letters: How One Archivist Took Every Measure Possible to Ensure Their Preservation." SAA Case Studies in Archival Ethics. 8pp. (citation)
- http://hdl.handle.net/10339/57222 (uri)
- publisher
- Society of American Archivists
- rights
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. (license)
- source
- SAA Case Studies in Archival Ethics
- title
- The Harding Affair Letters: How One Archivist Took Every Measure Possible to Ensure Their Preservation
- type
- Article