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RESUME: RICHARD J. COX 1

Richard J. Cox

School of Information Sciences

135 North Bellefield

Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Office: (412) 624-3245 FAX: (412) 648-7001

Education

BA, cum laude with departmental honors, Towson State College, 1972, History and English

MA, University of Maryland, 1978, U.S. History

Ph.D., School of Library and Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, 1992

Professional Positions

1972 St. Mary's City Commission: Graduate assistant in archaeology

1972-73 Maryland Historical Society: Editor, Calvert Family Papers

1973-78 Maryland Historical Society: Curator of Manuscripts

1978-83 City of Baltimore: City Archivist and Records Management Officer

1982 Goucher College: Instructor, History Department

1983-86 Head, Archives and Records Division, Alabama Department of Archives and History

1986-88 Associate Archivist, New York State Archives

1986-87 Visiting Instructor, School of Information Science and Policy, State University of New York at Albany

1988-present Lecturer (1988-92); Assistant Professor (1992-96), Associate Professor (1996-2000), and Professor

(2000-present), Library and Information Science, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh

Awards and Fellowships

Phi Alpha Theta, 1972

Arline Custer Memorial Award, Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, 1979,

1989, 1994

Certificate of Merit, Maryland Genealogical Society, 1981

Research Fellowship for Study of Modern Archives, Bentley Historical Library,

1985, 1991, 1992

Fellow, Society of American Archivists, 1989

Waldo G. Leland Award, Society of American Archivists, 1991, 2002, 2005

Beta Phi Mu, 1992

Best Article Collection Building, 2002


Selected Publications: Books and Related Publications

A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Calvert Papers (Baltimore: Maryland

Historical Society, 1973).

A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Mordecai Gist Papers (Baltimore:

Maryland Historical Society, 1975).

Tracing the History of the Baltimore Structure: A Guide to the Primary and

Secondary Sources (Baltimore: Baltimore City Archives and Records

Management Office, 1980).

co-editor, A Guide to the Research Collections of the Maryland Historical Society:

Historical and Genealogical Manuscripts and Oral History Interviews (Baltimore:

Maryland Historical Society, 1981).

Principal author, Assessing Alabama's Archives: A Plan for the Preservation of

the State's Historical Records (Montgomery: Alabama Historical Records

Advisory Board, 1985).

Principal author, Strengthening New York's Historical Records Programs: A Self Study Guide (Albany: New York

State Archives and Records Administration,

1988). [Winner, Arline Custer Memorial Award, 1989]

An Annotated Bibliography on the Administration of Archives and Manuscripts

(Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1989).

American Archival Analysis: The Recent Development of the Archival Profession in the United States (Metuchen,

New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1990). [Leland Award, 1991]

Managing Institutional Archives: Foundational Principles and Practices (New York: Greenwood Press, 1992).

Editor, "Educating the American Archivist for the Twenty-First Century," Journal of Education for Library and

Information Science 34 (Winter 1993).

The First Generation of Electronic Records Archivists in the United States: A Study in Professionalization (New

York: Haworth Press, 1994).

Documenting Localities: A Practical Model for American Archivists and Manuscripts Curators (Metuchen, New

Jersey: Scarecrow Press and Society of American Archivists, 1996).

Editor, "Archival Education and Student Research: Essays from the University of Pittsburgh," Provenance 12, nos. 1

and 2 (1994): 1-150.

Closing an Era: Historical Perspectives on Modern Archives and Records Management (Westport, Conn:

Greenwood Press, 2000).

Managing Records as Evidence and Information (Westport, Conn: Quorum Books, 2001). [Leland Award, 2002]

Guest editor, special issue on electronic records management, Information Management Journal, 35 (January 2001).


Co-editor, with David Wallace, Archives and the Public Good: Accountability and Records in Modern Society

(Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, 2002).

Vandals in the Stacks? A Response to Nicholson Baker’s Assault on Libraries (Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press,

2002). Flowers After the Funeral: Reflections on the Post 9/11 Digital Age (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press,

2003).

No Innocent Deposits: Forming Archives by Rethinking Appraisal (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 2004) [Leland

Award, 2005]

Lester J. Cappon and the Relationship of History, Archives, and Scholarship in the Golden Age of Archival Theory

(Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2004)

Archives and Archivists in the Information Age (New York: Neal-Schuman, 2005)

A Minor Nuisance Spread Across the Organization: Factors Leading to the Establishment and Support of Records

and Information Management Programs (Pittsburgh, PA: ARMA International Educational Foundation, October

2005).

With James M. O’Toole, Understanding Archives and Manuscripts, 2nd ed. (Chicago: Society of American

Archivists, 2006).

Ethics, Accountability and Recordkeeping in a Dangerous World (London: Facet, 2006)

Personal Archives and a New Archival Calling: Readings, Reflections and Ruminations (Duluth, MN: Litwin

Books, 2008).

The Demise of the Library School: Personal Reflections on Professional Education in the Modern Corporate

University (Duluth, MN: Library Juice, 2010).

Guest editor, “Archival Ethics: New Views,” Journal of Information Ethics 19 (Spring 2010): 20-189.

Archival Anxiety and the Vocational Calling (Duluth, MN: Litwin Books, 2011).

Co-edited with Alison Langmead and Eleanor Mattern, Archival Education and Education: Selected Papers from

the 2014 AERI Conference (Sacramento, CA: Litwin Books, 2015).

Selected Publications: Contributions to Books and Proceedings

"From Feudalism to Freedom: Maryland in the American Revolution," in Maryland Heritage: Five Baltimore

Institutions Celebrate the American Bicentennial, ed. John B. Boles (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1976),

pp. 125-79.

"Local Government Records Programs," Documenting America: Assessing the Condition of Historical Records in

the States, ed. Lisa B. Weber (Albany, New York): National Association of State Archives and Records

Administrators and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, (1984), pp. 19-36.

With Lynn W. Cox, "Selecting Information of Enduring Value for Preservation: Contending With the Hydra-Headed

Monster," in Rethinking the Library in the Information Age: Issues in Library Research: Proposals for the 1990s

(Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988), pp. 115-30.


"Archival Preservation Interests and Issues: An Archival Perspective." Advances in Preservation and Access (New

York: K. G. Saur, 1992), I: 228-43.

"Readings in Archives and Electronic Records: Annotated Bibliography and Analysis of the Literature," in

Electronic Records Management Program Strategies, ed. Margaret Hedstrom (Pittsburgh: Archives and Museum

Informatics, 1993), pp. 99-156.

"The Federal Government's Interest in Archives of the United States," in Oddo Bucci. ed., Archival Science on the

Threshold of the Year 2000 (Macerata, Italy: University of Macerata, 1993), pp. 207-41.

"Standardizing Archival Practices: A Tool for the Information Age," International Congress on Archives

Proceedings 1992 (Paris: ICA, 1994), pp. 165-179.

"Archives," Encyclopedia of Library History, eds. Wayne A. Wiegand and Donald G. Davis, Jr. (New York:

Garland Publishing Co., Inc., 1994), pp. 39-43.

"Other Atlantic States: Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, and South Carolina," in H.G. Jones, ed.,

Historical Consciousness in the Early Republic: The Origins of State Historical Societies and Collections, 1791-

1861 (Chapel Hill: North Caroliniana Society, Inc. and North Carolina Collection, 1995), pp. 102-124.

"A Sense of the Future: A Child's View of Archives," Archivists: The Image and Future of the Profession; 1995

Conference Proceedings, eds. Michael Piggott and Colleen McEwen (Canberra: Australian Society of Archivists

Inc., 1996), pp. 189-209.

"A Sense of the Future: An Adult's View of Archives," Archivists: The Image and Future of the Profession; 1995

Conference Proceedings, eds. Michael Piggott and Colleen McEwen (Canberra: Australian Society of Archivists

Inc., 1996), pp. 219-224.

"Blown to Bits: Electronic Records, Archivy, and the Corporation," in James M. O'Toole, ed. The Records of

American Business (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1997).

"Meta-Scheduling: Rethinking Archival Appraisal and Records Management Scheduling," in Bridging Records,

Information, and Knowledge: ARMA Proceedings (Prairie Village, KS: ARMA, 1999), 59-66.

"The Archivist and Collecting," Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, vol. 70, supp. 33 (New York:

Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2002), pp. 1-21.

“Leadership and Archival Education,” in Bruce W. Dearstyne, ed., Leadership and Administration of Successful

Archival Programs (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2001), pp. 1-17.

“What Do We Mean by ‘Yesterday’s Papers’?” in Yvonne Carignan, Danielle DuMerer, Susan Klier Koutsky, Eric

N. Lindquist, Kara M. McCurken, and Douglas P. McElrath, eds., Who Wants Yesterday’s Papers? The Research

Value of Printed Materials in the Digital Age (Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 2004), pp. 179-185.

“Relações perigosas: o governo norte-americano e seus arquivos,” in Documentos privados de interesse publico: o

acesso em questão (Sau Paulo: Instituo Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 2005), pp. 69-88.

“The Archivist and Community,” in Jeannette A. Bastian and Ben Alexander, eds., Community Archives: The

Shaping of Memory (London: Facet, 2009), pp. 251-264.

“Appraisal and the Future of Archives in the Digital Era,” in Jennie Hill, ed., The Future of Archives and

Recordkeeping: A Reader (London: Facet Publishing, 2011), pp. 213-237.


“Technology’s Promise, the Copying of Records, and the Archivist’s Challenge: A Case Study in Documentation

Rhetoric,” in Terry Cook, ed., Controlling the Past: Documenting Society and Institutions (Chicago: Society of

American Archivists, 2011), pp. 131-149.

“Teaching Advocacy,” in Larry J. Hackman, ed., Many Happy Returns: Advocacy and the Development of Archives

(Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2011), pp. 323-335.

Selected Publications: Articles

"A History of the Calvert Papers, MS. 174," Maryland Historical Magazine 68 (Fall 1973): 309-22.

"Public Records in Colonial Maryland," American Archivist 37 (April 1974): 263-75.

"The Historical Development of the Manuscripts Division of the Maryland Historical Society," Maryland Historical

Magazine 69 (Winter 1974): 409-17.

co-author, "The Records of a City: Baltimore and Its Historical Sources," Maryland Historical Magazine 70 (Fall

1975): 286-310.

"Stephen Bordley, George Whitefield, and the Great Awakening in Maryland," Historical Magazine of the Protestant

Episcopal Church 16 (September 1977): 297-307.

"Manuscript Usage in the Private Historical Society: Maryland as a Case Study, 1970-1976," Manuscripts 29 (Fall

1977): 243-51.

"Professionalism and Civil Engineering in Early America: The Vicissitudes of James Shriver's Career, 1815-1826,"

Maryland Historical Magazine 74 (March 1979): 23-38.

"The Plight of American Municipal Archives: Baltimore, 1729-1979," American Archivist 42 (July 1979): 281-92.

"Donald R. McCoy's National Archives and American Archival History," Manuscripts 31 (Fall 1979): 302-08.

"Historical Demographers, Local Historians, and Genealogists: A Bibliographical Essay of Maryland Studies,"

Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin 21 (Winter 1980): 5-17.

"An Annotated Bibliography of Basic Readings in Archives and Manuscripts," History News 35 (September 1980):

21-32.

"The Creation and Maintenance of Baltimore's Passenger Ship Lists by the Municipal Government, 1833-1866,"

Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin 22 (Winter 1981): 2-9.


"Women's History Sources, Women's History, and Archival Subject Guides," Manuscripts 33 (Spring 1981): 132-36.

"A Reappraisal of Municipal Records in the United States," Public Historian 3 (Winter 1981): 49-63.

"Compiling Local History Bibliographies," History News 37 (August 1981): 19-22.

"Understanding the Monumental City: A Bibliographical Essay on Baltimore History," Maryland Historical Magazine

77 (March 1982): 70-111.

"American Archival History: Its Development, Needs, and Opportunities," American Archivist 46 (Winter 1983):

31-41.

"A Century of Frustration: The Movement for the Founding of the State Archives in Maryland, 1811-1935," Maryland

Historical Magazine 78 (Summer 1983): 106-17.

"The Varieties and Use of Historical Documentation: Five New Books," Manuscripts 35 (Winter 1983): 41-51.

"Bibliography and Reference for the Archivist," American Archivist 46 (Spring 1983): 185-87.

"The Need for Comprehensive Records Programs in Local Government: Learning by Mistakes in Baltimore, 1947-

82," 1 Provenance (Fall 1983): 14-34.

With Edwin C. Bridges, "The Condition of State and Local Government Records in the United States," NASARA

Clearinghouse 6 (September 1983): 10-12.

"Archivists and Public History," North Carolina Institute for Applied History Institute News 3 (March 1984): 3-6.

With Anne S. K. Turkos, "Local History Research and the Records of Baltimore's Housing and Community

Development Agency," Prologue 16 (Spring 1984): 49-61.

"Genealogy and Public History: New Genealogical Guides and their Implications for Public Historians," Public

Historian 6 (Spring 1984): 89-96.

"State Government Publications and State Archival Institutions," NASARA Clearinghouse 7 (December 1984): 4-5,

16.

"Leadership and Local Government Records: The Opportunity of the Joint Committee on the Management,

Preservation, and Use of Local Government Records," Midwestern Archivist 10 (no. 1, 1985): 33-41.

"Archivists and Historians: A View from the United States," Archivaria 19 (Winter 1984-85): 185-90.

"Strategies for Archival Action in the 1980s and Beyond: Implementing the SAA Goals and Priorities Task Force

Report," Provenance 3 (Fall 1985): 22-37.

"Trouble on the Chain Gang: City Surveying, Maps, and the Absence of Urban Planning in Baltimore, 1730-1823;

With a Checklist of Maps of the Period," Maryland Historical Magazine 81 (Spring 1986): 8-49.

"Archivists and Public Historians in the United States," Public Historian 8 (Summer 1986): 25-41.


With Anne S.K. Turkos, "Establishing Public Library Archives," Journal of Library History 21 (Summer 1986): 574-

84.

"Government Publications as Archives: A Case for Cooperation Between Archivists and Librarians," Journal of

Library Administration 7 (Summer/Fall 1986): 111-28.

"Our Disappearing Past: The Precarious Condition of America's Historical Records," OAH Newsletter 15 (February

1987): 8-9.

"Professionalism and Archivists in the United States," American Archivist 49 (Summer 1986): 229-47.

With Judy Hohmann, "Private Sector Fund Raising and Historical Records Programs: Learning in New York," Society

of American Archivists Newsletter (September 1987): 6-7.

"Alabama's Archival Heritage, 1850-1985," Alabama Review 40 (October 1987): 284-307.

"The Origins of American Religious Archives: Ethan Allen, Pioneer Church Historian and Archivist of Maryland,"

Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society 29 (October 1987): 48-63.

"American Archival Literature: Expanding Horizons and Continuing Needs, 1901-1987," American Archivist 50

(Summer 1987): 306-23.

"On the Value of Archival History in the United States," Libraries & Culture 23 (Spring 1988): 135-51.

With Helen W. Samuels, "The Archivist's 'First Responsibility': A Research Agenda for the Identification and

Selection of Records of Enduring Value," American Archivist 51 (Winter/Spring 1988): 28-42.

"Educating Archivists: Speculations on the Past, Present, and Future," Journal of the American Society for Information

Science 39 (September 1988): 340-43.

"Fundraising for Historical Records Programs: An Undeveloped Archival Function," Provenance 6 (Fall 1988): 1-19.

"Selecting Historical Records for Microfilming: Some Suggested Procedures for Repositories," Library & Archival

Security 9 (no. 2, 1989): 21-41.

"A Documentation Strategy Case Study: Western New York," American Archivist 52 (Spring 1989): 192-200.

"Religious Archivists Meet the Archival Profession: The Proceedings of the Evangelical Archives Conference,"

Provenance 7 (Spring 1989): 66-79.

"La formation en archivistique: Besoins et realisations," Archives 20 (hiver 1989): 33-42.

"Textbooks, Archival Education, and the Archival Profession: A Review Essay," Public Historian 12 (Spring 1990):

73-81.

"Professionalism and Archivists Revisited: A Review Essay," Midwestern Archivist 15, no. 2 (1990): 5-15.

"Archival Education in the New York Library Environment," Bookmark 48 (1989): 32-36.

"RAMP Studies and Related UNESCO Publications: An International Source for Archival Administration," American

Archivist 53 (Summer 1990): 488-95.

"The History of Primary Sources in Graduate Education: An Archival Perspective," Special Collections 4, no. 2

(1990): 39-78.


"Library History and Library Archives," Libraries & Culture 26 (Fall 1991): 569-93.

"Managing Business Archives: Basic Considerations," Records & Retrieval Report 7 (November 1991): 1-16.

"Researching Archival Reference as an Information Function," RQ 31 (Spring 1992): 387-97.

"The Archival Profession and Information Technology Standards," Journal of the American Society for Information

Science 43 (September 1992): 571-75.

"Archivists and the Use of Archival Records: Or, A View from the World of Documentary Editing," Provenance 9

(1991 [1992]): 89-110.

With Christinger Tomer, "Electronic Mail: Implications and Challenges for Records Managers and Archivists,"

Records & Retrieval Report 8 (November 1992).

"Electronic Information Technology and the Archivist: Bright Lights, Lingering Concerns," American Archivist 55

(Spring 1992): 232-34.

"The Concept of Public Memory and Its Impact on Archival Public Programming," Archivaria 36 (Autumn 1993):

122-35.

"The Masters of Archival Studies and American Education Standards: An Argument for the Continued Development

of Graduate Archival Education in the United States," Archivaria 36 (Autumn 1993): 221-31.

"International Perspectives on the Image of Archivists and Archives: Coverage by The New York Times, 1992-93,"

International Information & Library Review 25 (1993): 195-231.

"The Roles of the Editor: Some Additional Reflections," American Archivist 56 (Winter 1993): 10-14.

"The Context of Archives and Archivists," American Archivist 56 (Spring 1993): 230-32.

"The Roles of Graduate and Continuing Education in Preparing Archivists for the Information Age," American

Archivist 56 (Summer 1993): 444-57.

"An Analysis of Archival Research, 1970-1992, and the Role and Function of the American Archivist," American

Archivist 57 (Spring 1994): 278-288.

"The Record: Is It Evolving?" Records and Retrieval Report 10 (March 1994): 1-16.

"Re-Discovering the Archival Mission: The Recordkeeping Functional Requirements Project at the University of

Pittsburgh; A Progress Report." Archives and Museum Informatics 8, no. 4 (1994): 279-300.

"The Documentation Strategy and Archival Appraisal Principles: A Different Perspective." Archivaria 38 (Fall 1994):

11-36. [Selected for translation for publication in the journal of the Association of Archivists of Valencia as one of

the seminal writings on archival appraisal. Translated and published as “Los Principios De La Estrategia De La

Documentacion Y De La Valoracion Archivistica: Una Perspectiva Diferente,” Revista D’Arxius: Associaio

D’Arxivers Valencians (2004): 177-215]

"Collectors and Archival, Manuscript, and Rare Book Security." Focus on Security: The Magazine of Library,

Archive, and Museum Security 2 (April 1995): 19-27.

"What’s in a Name?: Archives as a Multi-faceted Term in the Information Professions." Records and Retrieval Report

11 (March 1995): 1-15.


"The Archival Documentation Strategy: A Brief Intellectual History, 1984-1994 and Practical Description." Janus

no. 2 (1995): 76-93.

"Continuing Education and Special Collections Professionals: The Need for Rethinking," Rare Books & Manuscripts

Librarianship 10, no. 2 (1995): 78-96.

"Archives and Archivists in the Twenty-First Century: What Will We Become?" Archival Issues 20, no. 2 (1995):

97-113.

"The Record in the Information Age: A Progress Report on Research." Records and Retrieval Report 12 (January

1996): 1-16.

"The Long-Term Maintenance of Records." Records and Retrieval Report 12 (April 1996): 1-16.

"The Record in the Manuscript Collection," Archives and Manuscripts 24 (May 1996): 46-61.

"Re-Defining Electronic Records Management." Records Management Quarterly 30 (October 1996): 8-13.

"The Archival Documentation Strategy and Its Implications for the Appraisal of Architectural Records," American

Archivist 59 (Spring 1996): 144-154.

"Computer Literacy and Records Professionals." Records and Retrieval Report 12 (October 1996): 1-16.

"Debating the Future of the Book," American Libraries 28 (February 1997): 52-55.

"More Than Diplomatic: Functional Requirements for Evidence in Recordkeeping." Records Management Journal 7

(April 1997): 31-57.

"Advocacy in the Graduate Archives Curriculum: A North American Perspective," Janus no. 1 (1997): 30-41.

"Messrs. Washington, Jefferson, and Gates: Quarrelling about the Preservation of the Documentary Heritage of the

United States." First Monday (August 1997), available at http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue2_8/cox/index.html.

"Why Technology Convergence Is Not Enough for the Management of Information and Records." Records &

Retrieval Report 13 (October 1997): 1-16.

With Wendy Duff, “ Warrant and the Definition of Electronic Records: Questions Arising from the Pittsburgh Project.” Archives and Museum Informatics 11 (1997): 223-231. "Electronic Systems and Records Management in the Information Age: An Introduction." Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, (June 1997), available at http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Jun-97/cox.html. With Edie Rasmussen, “Reinventing the Information Professions and the Argument for Specialization in LIS

Education: Case Studies in Archives and Information Technology,” Journal of Education for Library and Information

Science, 38 (Fall 1997): 255-267.

"The Archivist and Collecting: A Review Essay," American Archivist 59 (Fall 1996): 496-512.

"The Importance of Records in the Information Age," Records Management Quarterly 32 (January 1998): 36-46, 48-

49, 52.

“Access in the Digital Information Age and the Archival Mission: The United States.” Society of Archivists Journal,

19, no. 1 (1998): 25-40.

http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue2_8/cox/index.html

http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Jun-97/cox.html


“Do We Understand Information in the Information Age?” Records & Information Management Report 14 (March

1998): 1-12.

"Archival Anchorites: Building Public Memory in the Era of the Culture Wars.” Multicultural Review, 7 (June 1998):

52-60.

With Jane Greenberg and Cynthia Porter. “Access Denied: The Discarding of Library History.” American Libraries

29 (April 1998): 57-61.

“Records Management Scheduling and Archival Appraisal,” Records and Information Management Report 14 (April

1998): 1-16.

“Drawing Sea Serpents: The Publishing Wars on Personal Computing and the Information Age.” First Monday (May

1998), available at http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue2_8/cox/index.html.

“Millennial Thoughts on the Education of Records Professionals,” Records and Information Management Report 15

(April 1999): 1-16.

“Declarations, Independence, and Text in the Information Age,” First Monday 4 (June 1999), available at

http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue4_6/rjcox/index.html

"Buscant l'autoritat: arxivers i documents electronics al Nou Mon de fi de segle," Lligall: Revista Catalana

d'Arxivistica 14 (1999): 133-149.

"Privacy, Access, and Human Values in the World of the Records Professional," Records and Information Retrieval

Report 15 (October 1999): 1-16.

"Records Professionals and the Understanding of Records Systems: Letter Writing Manuals," Records and

Information Retrieval Report, 15 (December 1999): 1-16.

"Employing Records Professionals in the Information Age: A Research Study," Information Management Journal 34

(January 2000): 18-33.

"Searching for Authority: Archivists and Electronic Records in the New World At the Fin-de-Siecle," First

Monday (January 2000), available at http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_1/cox/index.html.

"The Failure or Future of American Archival History: A Somewhat Unorthodox View," Libraries & Culture 35

(Winter 2000): 141-154. Also in Andrew B. Wertheimer and Donald G. Davis, Jr., eds., Library History Research in

America: Essays Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Library History Round Table (Washington, D.C.:

The Center for the Book, Library of Congress, 2000), pp. 141-154.

"Accountability, Public Scholarship, and Library, Information, and Archival Science Educators," Journal of Education

for Library and Information Science 41 (Spring 2000): 94-105.

"The Society of American Archivists and Graduate Education: Meeting at the Crossroads," American Archivist, 63

(Fall/Winter 2000): 368-379. (a pre-print version is available at

http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~gaeconf/CoxPositionPaper.html).

"Hiring an Archivist," Records and Information Management Report 16 (February 2000): 1-15.

“Reading Archives Part One. Classics, Textbooks, Manuals, Monographs, Edited Works, Conference Proceedings

and Project Reports,”" Records and Information Management Report 16 (May 2000): 1-16; “Reading Archives Part

Two: Research, Case, Management, and Historical Studies,” Records and Information Management Report 16 (June

2000): 1-16.


http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue4_6/rjcox/index.html


http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~gaeconf/CoxPositionPaper.html)


“The Documentation Strategy and Archival Appraisal Principles: A Different Perspective,” in Randall C. Jimerson,

ed., American Archival Studies: Readings in Theory and Practice (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2000),

This was originally published as "The Documentation Strategy and Archival Appraisal Principles: A Different

Perspective." Archivaria 38 (Fall 1994): 11-36.

"Testing the Spirit of the Information Age," Journal of Information Ethics 10 (Fall 2001): 51-66.

“The Information Age and History: Looking Backward to See Us,” Ubiquity (26 September-October 4, 2000),

available at http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/.

“Records Professionals and the World Wide Web: Resources and Responsibilities; Part One: Basic Professional

Information Sources,” Records and Information Management Report, 16 (October 2000): 1-13.

“Records Professionals and the World Wide Web: Resources and Responsibilities; Part Two New and Better Uses

of the Web for Records Work,” Records and Information Management Report, 16 (November 2000): 1-16.

“Report of the SAA Task Force on Continuing Education,” Archival Outlook (September/October 2000): 4-9, also

available at http://www.archivists.org/governance/tfce.html

“The Great Newspaper Caper: Backlash in the Digital Age,” First Monday 5- (December 4, 2000)

available at http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_12/cox/ See also “A Response to Mr.

Henderson,” First Monday 6 (March 5, 2001), available at

http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_3/cox/

“Information ‘Documents’: How People and Organizations Acquire Information,” Records and Information

Management Report 17 (January 2001): 1-16.

“The Traditional Archival and Historical Records Program in the Digital Age: A Cautionary Tale,” Records and

Information Management Report 17 (May 2001): 1-16.

With Elizabeth Yakel, David Wallace, Jeannette Bastian, and Jennifer Marshall, "Archival Education in North

American Library and Information Science Schools," Library Quarterly 71 (April 2001): 141-194.

With Elizabeth Yakel, David Wallace, Jeannette Bastian, and Jennifer Marshall, “Educating Archivists in Library and

Information Science Schools,” Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 42 (Summer 2001): 228-

240.

“America’s Pyramids: Presidents and Their Libraries,” Government Information Quarterly 19, no. 1 (2002): 45-75.

“Evidence and Archives,” Records and Information Management Report 17 (November 2001): 1-14.

“Hiring an Archives Consultant,” Records and Information Management Report 17 (December 2001): 1-16.

“Records Programs, Disaster Preparedness and Recovery: A New Urgency,” Records and Information Management

Report 17 (January 2002): 1-14.

with Mary K. Biagini, Toni Carbo, Tony Debons, Ellen Detlefsen, Jose Marie Griffiths, Don King, David Robins,

Richard Thompson, Chris Tomer, and Martin Weiss, “The Day the World Changed: Implications for Archival,

Library, and Information Science Education,” First Monday 6-(December 3rd 2001), available at


“Rediscovering the Document: Three Recent Views,” Records and Information Management Report, 18 (March

2002): 1-13.

http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/

http://www.archivists.org/governance/tfce.html





“The End of Collecting: Towards a New Purpose for Archival Appraisal,” Archival Science 2, nos. 3-4 (2002): 287-

309. Selected for translation and re-publication in the Polish journal Archeion.

“Unfair Use: Advice to Unwitting Authors,” Journal of Scholarly Publishing 34 (October 2002): 31-42.

“La valoracion como un acta de memoria,” Tabula: Revista De Archivivos De Castilla Y Leon no. 6 (2003): 51-73.

“Does Strategic Information Management Have ARMs?” Records & Information Management Report 18

(September 2002): 1-13.

“Who Are We? Who Knows What We Are? Some Thoughts on the Continuing Debate About Credentials and

Professional Identity,” Records & Information Management Report 18 (December 2002): 1-14.

“Records Life Cycle and Records Continuum,” with Margaret Pett, Records & Information Management Report, 19

(May 2003): 1-14.

"Archives and the Digital Future," Journal of the Irish Society for Archives 8 (2001-2): 35-48.

“Public Scholarship and Records Professionals,” Records and Information Management Report 18 (April 2002): 1-

13.

“Appraising and Scheduling Organizational Records: Two Case Studies,” with Matt Herbison and Michael

O’Malley, Records & Information Management Report 19 (September 2003): 1-14.

“Records, Documents, and Stuff in the Digital Era,” Records & Information Management Report 19 (October 2003):

1-13.

“Records in the Hands of an Angry God: Jonathan Edwards and Eighteenth Century Records Management” Records

& Information Management Report 19 (November 2003): 7-11.

“Establishing and Reinventing Institutional Records Programs: Four Case Studies,” Records & Information

Management Report 19 (December 2003): 1-13 [Part One]; [Part Two] Records & Information Management Report

20 (January 2004): 1-13.

“Forming the Records Professional’s Knowledge: North American Archival Publishing in the 20th Century,”

Records & Information Management Report 20 (March 2004): 1-13.

“Archives, Records, and Knowledge Management in the Twenty-first Century: What is the Future of the Records

Professional?,” Records & Information Management Report 20 (April 2004): 1-13.

“The Mythology of the Basic Archives Textbook,” Archival Outlook (March/April 2004): 12-13.

"Back to Basics: Speaking, Writing, Reading -- and Records," Records & Information Management Report 20 (May

2004): 1-13.

“Collecting ‘Stuff,’” Records & Information Management Report, 20 (May 2004): 14-16

“Records and Technology’s Mysteries,” Records & Information Management Report, 20 (May 2004): 15-16.

"The Expanding Vision of SAA's Publications Program," Archival Outlook (May/June 2004): 16-17.

“Creating a Classic: Rediscovering Lester J. Cappon,” Archival Outlook (July/August 2004): 14-15.

“All SAA Publications Must Be in Agreement? Consensus and Conflict in Archival Literature,” Archival Outlook

(September/October 2004): 22-23.


“Why the Archivist of the United States is Important to Records Professionals and America,” Records &

Information Management Report, 20 (October 2004): 1-14.

“The World is a Dangerous Place: Recordkeeping in the Age of Terror,” Records & Information Management

Report 20 (November 2004): 1-14.

“Technology, the Future of Work, and Records Professionals,” Records & Information Management Report 20

(December 2004): 1-12.

“Los Principios De La Estrategia De La Documentacion Y De La Valoracion Archivistica: Una Perspectiva

Diferente,” Revista D’Arxius: Associaio D’Arxivers Valencians (2004): 177-215. [This is a translation of "The

Documentation Strategy and Archival Appraisal Principles: A Different Perspective." Archivaria 38 (Fall 1994): 11-

36].

“Advice on Records Management Policy: Comments on RIMR’s Twenty Years,” Records & Information

Management Report 21 (January 2005): 1-10.

“Publishing, not Perishing,” Archival Outlook (November/December 2004): 14-15.

“Archival Satisfaction: Writing and the Professional Community,” Archival Outlook (January/February 2005): 10-11.

“Truth and the Record in the Post-Truth Society,” Records & Information Management Report 21 (February 2005):

1-13.

“Scandals, Scoundrels, and Something Spicy,” Archival Outlook (July/August 2005): 26-27.

“Archiving Archives: Rethinking and Revitalizing a Concept,” Archives, forthcoming. A longer version, with the

same title, was published in Records & Information Management Report 21 (March 2005): 1-13.

“Reading and Archival Knowledge,” Archival Outlook (March/April 2005): 14, 23.

“Censorship and Records,” Records & Information Management Report 21 (April 2005): 1-12.

“Playing Publisher, Building Knowledge, and Providing Opportunities: Rethinking a Professional Association’s

Publications Program,” Records & Information Management Report 21 (May 2005): 1-13.

“Lester J. Cappon and the Relationship of History, Archives, and Scholarship in the Golden Age of Archival

Theory,” American Archivist 68 (Spring/Summer 2005): 74-111.

“A ‘Harmless Whiff of Disturbed Air’: Sound Records,” Records & Information Management Report 21 (October

2005): 1-13.

“Teaching About Records, Ethics, and Accountability: Three Cases,” co-authored with Barbara Meister, David

Reynolds, and Anne Salsich, Records & Information Management Report 21 (November 2005): 1-13.

“The Need for Case Studies – and a Start,” Records & Information Management Report 21 (December 2005): 14-15.

"Public Memory Meets Archival Memory: The Interpretation of Williamsburg's Secretary's Office," American

Archivist 68 (Fall/Winter 2005): 279-296. Reprint of “Public Memory Meets Archival Memory: The Interpretation

of Williamsburg’s Secretary’s Office,” Archives & Social Studies 1 (March 2007): 13-42.

“The Romance of the Document,” Records & Information Management Report 22 (January 2006): 1-13.


“The Continuing Search for Order: A Historical Perspective,” Records & Information Management Report 22

(January 2006): 14-16.

“A “Therapeutic Function”: Personal Recordkeeping,” Records & Information Management Report 22 (February

2006), 1-13.

“Human Impulses and Personal Archives,” Records & Information Management Report 22 (March 2006), 1-13.

“Traces of Ourselves: Concluding Thoughts on Personal Recordkeeping,” Records & Information Management

Report 22 (April 2006), 1-14.

"Seven Paths to Developing or Sustaining RIM Programs," Information Management Journal 40 (March/April

2006): 48-50, 52-55, 57.

“Empty Temples: Challenges for Modern Government Archives and Records Management,” Records & Information

Management Report 22 (October 2006): 1-13.

“The National Archives Reclassification Scandal,” Records & Information Management Report 22 (November

2006): 1-13.

“Hearing the Call,” Records & Information Management Report 23 (January 2007): 1-13.

“Heeding the Call,” Records & Information Management Report 23 (February 2007): 1-13.

“Are There Really New Directions and Innovations in Archival Education?” Archival Science 6 (2006): 247-261.

“Professing the Call: The Importance of Professional Education,” Records & Information Management Report 23

(March 2007): 1-14.

“Former President Giuliani and His Library?” Archives & Social Studies 1 (March 2007): 475-478.

“Sustaining the Call,” Records & Information Management Report 23 (April 2007):1-14.

“Two Sides of the Coin: Archivists and Records Managers Consider Electronic Mail; The Records Managers

Speak,” Records & Information Management Report 23 (May 2007):1-14.

“Listservs and Difficult Appraisal Decisions: The Archives and Archivists List Great Debate,” Records &

Information Management Report 23 (September 2007): 1-14.

“Listservs and Difficult Appraisal Decisions: The Archives and Archivists List Great Debate (Part Two),” Records

& Information Management Report 23 (October 2007): 1-14.

With the University of Pittsburgh Archives Students, “Machines in the Archives: Technology and the Coming

Transformation of Archival Reference,” First Monday, 12 (November 2007),

http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2029/1894.

“The Web of Records: The World Wide Web and the Records Professions,” Records & Information Management

Report 23 (November 2007): 1-14.

“The Web of Records: Blogs and the Records Professions,” Records & Information Management Report 23

(December 2007): 1-12.

“Revisiting the Archival Finding Aid,” Journal of Archival Organization 5, no. 4 (2007): 5-32.


“The Academic Archives of the Future,” EDUCAUSE Review 43 (March/April 2008): 10-11.

“Archival Ethics: The Truth of the Matter,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and

Technology 59, no. 7 (2008): 1128-1133.

“Writing for Professional Development and for the Profession,” Information Management 43 (January/February

2009): 42-45.

“Unpleasant Things: Teaching Advocacy in Archival Education Programs,” InterActions: UCLA Journal of

Education and Information Studies. Vol. 5, Issue 1, Article 8 (2009).

http://repositories.cdlib.org/gseis/interactions/vol5/iss1/art8

“Archival Insecurities,” Library & Archival Security 22, no. 1 (2009): 3-4.

Richard J. Cox, Abigail Middleton, Rachel Grove Rohrbaugh, and Daniel Scholzen, “A Different Kind of Archival

Security: Three Cases,” Library & Archival Security 22, no. 1 (2009): 33-60.

“Secrecy, Archives, and the Archivist: A Review Essay (Sort Of),” American Archivist 72 (Spring/Summer 2009):

213-230.

“Digital Curation and the Citizen Archivist,” Digital Curation: Practice, Promises & Prospects, eds. Helen Tibbo, et

al (Chapel Hill: School of Information and Library Science, 2009): 102-109.

“Teaching, Researching, and Preaching Archival Ethics: Or, How These New Views Came to Be,” Journal of

Information Ethics 19 (Spring 2010): 20-32.

with Ronald L. Larsen, “iSchools and Archival Studies,” Archival Science 8 (2008): 307-326.

“Yours ever (well, maybe): studies and signposts in letter writing,” Archival Science 10 (2010): 373-388.

With Leanne Bowler, Sherry Koshman, Jung Sun Oh, Daqing He, Bernadette G. Callery, Geoffrey C. Bowker,

“Issues in User-Centered Design in LIS,” Library Trends 59 (Spring 2011): 721-752.

Richard J. Cox, Eleanor Mattern, Linsday Mattock, Raquel Rodriguez, and Tonia Sutherland, “Assessing iSchools,”

Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 53 (October 2012): 303-316.

Richard J. Cox, Janet Ceja Alcala, and Leanne Bowler, “Archival Document Packets: A Teaching Module in

Advocacy Training Using the Papers of Dick Thornburgh,” American Archivist 75 (Fall/Winter 2012): 371-392.

“Lester J. Cappon and the Creation of Records: The Diary and the Diarist,” Archivaria 75 (Spring 2013): 115-144.

"Where Is Archival Science in the History of Information Science: A Speculative Framework," in Toni Carbo and

Trudi Bellardo Hahn, eds., International Perspectives on the History of Information Science and Technology:

Proceedings of the ASIS&T 2012 Pre-Conference on the History of ASIS&T and Information Science and

Technology (Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc., 2012), pp. 39-48.

“Archival Futures: The Future of Archives,” Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals,” 9

(Fall 2013): 331-352.

"Rethinking Archival Ethics," Journal of Information Ethics 22 (Fall 2013): 13-20.

“Lester J. Cappon and the Publishing of Modern Documentary Editions,” Journal of Scholarly Publishing 46 (April

2015): 224-250

“Graduate Archival Education in the United States: A Personal Reflection About Its Past and Future,” Journal of

Contemporary Archival Studies 2 (Article) (2015): 1-9.

http://repositories.cdlib.org/gseis/interactions/vol5/iss1/art8


“Professional and Scholarly Writing: Advice for Information Professionals and Academics,” Journal of Information

Theory and Practice 3, no. 4 (2015): 6-16.

“The Ethics of Teaching,” portal: Libraries and the Academy 16 (April 2016): 247-261.

Selected Recent Book Reviews

Review of Mr. Collier’s letter racks: A tale of art and illusion at the threshold of the modern information age by

Richard J. Cox. First Monday, Volume 17, Number 11 - 5 November

2012 http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/4273/3361

Review of Betty Medsger, The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI Files (New York: Alfred

A. Knopf, 2014), in American Archivist 77, no. 2 (2014): 572-575.

Review of Records Management and Information Culture: Tackling the People Problem by Gillian Oliver and Fiorella

Foscarini. London, Facet Publishing, UK, 2014. Published in Journal of the Association for Information Science and

Technology 66 (August 2015): 1744-1746.

Positions in Professional Organizations

Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference

Steering Committee, 1976-78; Publications Committee Chairperson, 1980-83; Nominating

Committee, 1979; Arline Custer Memorial Award Committee, 1980-1983, 1988-90; Program

Chair, Spring 1992 meeting.

Manuscript Society

Book Review Editor, Manuscripts, 1977-83.

American Association for State and Local History

Maryland Membership Chairperson, 1976-82; Advisory Committee on Local Government

Records, 1982-86.

Society of American Archivists

New Notes Reporter, American Archivist, 1979-83; Colonial Dames Scholarship Subcommittee,

1981-83; Subcommittee I, Goals and Priorities Task Force, 1984; Education and Professional

Development Committee, 1983-87; Steering Committee, Government Records Section, 1984-

86 (Vice Chair, 1985-86); Advisory Committee, Education Office, 1985-89;Council, 1986-89;

Member, Committee on Institutional Development and Evaluation, 1989-90; Editor, Archival

Educators Round Table newsletter, 1989-92 ; Editor, American Archivist, 1992-1996; Member,

SAA-ARMA Joint Committee, 1998-2000; Chair, SAA Continuing Education Taskforce, 1999-

2000.; Publications Editor, 2002-2006; A-Census Advisory Committee, 2003-2006.

Society of Alabama Archivists

Newsletter editor, 1984-86.

National Council on Public History

Editorial Board, Public Historian, 1986-89; Program Committee, 1988 Annual Meeting, 1986-

88.

Society of Archivists

Editorial Board, Society of Archivists Journal, 2004-present.

Association of Records Managers and Administrators

ARMA International Educational Foundation Scholarship Committee, 2005.


Other Appointed Positions

Diocese of Pittsburgh. Archives Advisory Committee, 1992-2000.

Pennsylvania State Historical Records Advisory Board, 1992-1996.

Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. Archives and Library Committee, 1989-1995.

Editor, Records & Information Management Report, 2001-2007.

Member, Editorial Board, Archival Science, 2001-present.

Papers Presented at Professional Meetings

Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, 1973, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1989, 1990, 1992,

1999, 2005, 2007, 2013

Manuscript Society, 1980

Society of American Archivists, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992,

1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2011

Organization of American Historians, 1982

National Association of State Archives and Records Administrator, 1984

Society of Mississippi Archivists, 1984, 1989

Society of Georgia Archivists, 1984, 1985

Society of Alabama Archivists, 1984

South Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, 1985

Long Island Archives Conference, 1986

Lake Ontario Archives Conference, 1987

New York Library Association, 1987

National Council on Public History, 1988

Midwest Archives Conference, 1988, 1992 , 1993, 1996, 2001

Association des Archivistes du Quebec, 1988

American Association for State and Local History, 1988

Association of Catholic Diocesan Archivists, 1988

New England Archivists, 1989, 1993


Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, American Library Association, 1989, 1995

Society of Ohio Archivists, 1989

Society of California Archivists, 1990

Association of Manitoba Archivists, 1990

Association of Canadian Archivists, 1991, 1994, 2003, 2004

International Congress on Archives, 1992

Australian Society of Archivists, 1995, 2005

Managing Electronic Records Conference, Cohasset Associates, 1996

Society of Archivists (U.K.), 1999

University College Dublin, 1998, 2002

Catalonian Congress, 1999

Association of Records Managers and Administrators, 1999, 2003, 2005

iSchool Conference, 2008

National Archives and Records Administration. Invited meeting to evaluate NARA inservice training

program, Washington, D.C., August 19, 1993.

International Working Conference on Electronic Records, Pittsburgh, PA, 7-10 April 1994.

Arizona Library Association and Mountain Plains Library Association, 2001

Society of Archivists, Ireland, 2002

Second International Conference on the History of Records and Archives,” Amsterdam, September 2,

2005.

Archives and Records Association of New Zealand, the Australian Society of Archivists, and the New

Zealand Society of Archivists, Wellington, New Zealand, October 8, 2005.

Digital Curation Conference, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, April 19, 2007.

Warren County Genealogical Society, Warren, PA, May 21, 2007.

Kentucky Council on Archives, October 14, 2007, Lexington, Kentucky.

I-School Conference, Los Angeles, February 2008.

Archival Education Research Institute (AERI), 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015


Invited Keynotes, Plenary Addresses, and Major Talks

Society of California Archivists. "What Are Archival Institutions and What Do We Do With

Them?" San Diego, CA, April 27, 1990.

International Congress on Archives. "Standardizing Archival Practices: A Tool for

the Information Age." (Plenary Address) Montreal, Canada, September 8, 1992.

Canadian Centre for Architecture. "The Archival Documentation Strategy and Its

Implications for the Appraisal of Architectural Records," Montreal, Canada, 14-16

April 1994.

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. "Archival Development in Delaware, Florida,

Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, and South Carolina, 1791-1861: A Case Study in

Archival History," Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 20-21 May 1994.

“The Importance of Records in the Information Age.” Managing Electronic Records

Conference, Cohasset Associates, Chicago, Illinois, November 4, 1996.

"Records Management as an Archival Function," University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee

School of Library Science, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 8, 1996.

Smithsonian Institution Data Processing Managers Meeting, Washington, D.C.. Paper

presented on "Electronic Records and the Archival Profession: The Past Is Not

Prologue," 13 February 1997.

Keynote Address, Society of Archivists Meeting, London, England, 17 September 1997.

Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies, University of Michigan, Ann

Arbor, Michigan, 27 March 1998.

New Media, New Challenges, New Responsibilities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,

Michigan, 28 March 1998.

“Archivists, Cyberculture, and Stasis,” University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland,

October 2, 1998.

"Testing the Spirit of the Information Age." Skeptics Lecture, University of

Pittsburgh, 21 October 1999.

“Nicholson Baker’s Assault on Libraries and Archives,” SI 528, University of Michigan

School of Information, 28 March 2001, Ann Arbor, Michigan.


“Newspaper, Reformatting, and the Preservation of Newspapers,” International Coalition

on Newspapers (ICON), Chicago, April 20, 2001.

“Librarians, Archivists, and Paper: A Debate with Nicholson Baker,” Simmons, Boston,

May 16, 2001.

“Librarians, the Digital Era, and Nicholson Baker’s Tale,” presented at Arizona Library

Association and Mountain Plains Library Association, December 7, 2001, Phoenix,

Arizona.

“Appraisal as an Act of Memory,” University of Salamanca, Spain, October 2002.

“Archival Appraisal Alchemy,” Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village Symposium,

November 2002.

“The Creativity and Beauty of Preservation: Some Thoughts on the Pennsylvania

Assembly Library,” Pennsylvania Humanities Council, Harrisburg, PA, October 4, 2004.

“Archiving Archives: Rethinking and Revitalizing a Concept,” Paper for the “Unleashing

the Archive” conference, University College London and the National Archives, London,

November 12, 2004.

“The Dangers of the Eroding Influence of the Public Ownership of Public Records,”

Paper for the “Private Archives of High Officials” Conference, Instituto Fernando

Henrique Cardoso, Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 26, 2004.

“Rappin with Cappon: Reflections on the Career and Scholarship of Lester J.

Cappon,” Newberry Library, Chicago, January 27, 2005.

“Wandering in a Strange Land: Technology, Teaching, and Knowledge in the

Cyberspace Age,” Keynote Address to the Eastern Community College Social

Science Association, Sterling, VA, April 1, 2005.

“Public Memory meets Archival Memory: The Interpretation of Williamsburg’s

Secretary’s Office,” Second International Conference on the History of Records and

Archives, September 2, 2005, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

“Archives and Communities: The Ways of the Document,” Australian Society of

Archivists, the Archives and Records Association of NZ (ARANZ), and the NZ Society

of Archivists, Wellington, New Zealand, October 2005.

“Archival Knowledge: Professional Reading, Writing, and Publishing,” Archives New

Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand, October 10, 2005.


Distinguished Lecturer, “Archival Memory Meets Public Memory: The Interpretation of

Colonial Williamsburg’s Secretary’s Office,” School of Library, Archival, and

Information Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, November

17, 2005.

“A Cloud of Witnesses: Implications of the New Personal Archiving for Future Archival

Work,” Kentucky Council on Archives, October 14, 2007, Lexington, Kentucky.

“Arguing About Appraisal,” Keynote at the New England Archives Conference, Boston,

November 7, 2009.

Panel Participant, Big Data: Public Policy and the Exploding Digital Corpus, Princeton

University Center for Information Technology Policy, November 30, 2011, Princeton,

NJ.

Participant, SIG #1 Information Ethics: “Innovations and Challenges in Teaching

Information Ethics Across Contexts," ALISE January 5, 2011, San Diego, CA

Research Paper, “Lester J. Cappon, Teaching, and Archival Training: An Exploration in

Archival Working Memory," ALISE January 5, 2011, San Diego, CA

Paper, “Personal Digital Archiving, the Diminishing Information Age, and the Archival

Paradigm,” Internet Archive, February 25, 2011, San Francisco, CA.

Paper, “Archival Futures,” Federation of American Bibliographic Societies, May 14,

2011, Pittsburgh, PA.

NSF funded workshop on “Emerging Configurations of the Virtual and Real,” March

2011, Chicago, IL.

Workshops Taught

Library Council of Metropolitan Milwaukee. "Documentation Strategies and Documenting

Localities: A Workshop," October 11, 1989, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

District of Columbia Historical Records Advisory Board. "Documentation Strategies and

Documenting Localities: A Workshop," October 18, 1989, Washington, D.C.

Society of American Archivists. "Documentation Strategy Workshop." Tempe, Arizona,

March 3-4, 1990 and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 11-12, 1990.


“Probing Archival Appraisal,” Society of American Archivists, Orlando, Florida,

September 2, 1998 (one day workshop).

“Probing Archival Appraisal,” Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists, Provo,

Utah, October 29, 1998 (one day workshop).

Taught Workshop, "Probing Archival Appraisal Practice for a New Millennium,"

University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences, 30 October 1999.

Consultant Activities

Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, 1979

City of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1982

Florida Division of Archives, History, and Records Management, 1984

District of Columbia, 1984

University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 1985

Rockland County, New York, 1985

New York State Archives, 1986, 1989

Wisconsin State Historical Records Advisory Board, 1987

Western New York Library Resources Council, 1988, 1989

Chautauqua Institution, 1989


Library Council of Metropolitan Milwaukee, 1989

District of Columbia Historical Records Advisory Board, 1989

Ellis School, Pittsburgh, 1990

Diocese of Pittsburgh, 1990

World Bank, 1990, 1991

Oncology Nursing Society, 1990, 1991

Long Island University Palmer School of Library and Information Science, 1992

City of Philadelphia, 1993-94

Frick Art and Historical Center, 1993-94

Vermont State Archives, 1994

Port Authority of Allegheny County, 1994

Diocese of Wheeling, 1996

Maine State Archives, 1997

L. D. Astorino Associates, 1998

ASE Limited, 1999

City of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, 1999-2000

Pennsylvania Historical Records Advisory Board, 1999-2000

Franciscan Friars, T.O.R., 2001

University of Pittsburgh Activities

University-wide

Member, Senate Plant Utilization and Planning Committee, 1992-1995.

School-wide


Member, SIS Planning and Budgeting Committee, 1998-2002.

Member, Informal Academic Integrity Committee, DLIS, July 1998.

Department of Library and Information Science

Chair, Curriculum Committee, 1992-1993

Chair, Research Committee, 1993-1994.

Chair, Corbett Award Committee, August-October 1998.

Chair, Financial Aid Committee, 1995-1996, 1998-2000

Member, Search Committee, Boyce Endowed Chair, 1999-2001, 2007-08,

2011-present

Chair, DLIS Faculty Search Committee, 2000-01

Chair, Archives and Preservation Committee, 2002-present

Chair, Library and Information Science Program, 2006-2009.

DDepartment of Information Culture and Data Stewardship

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