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"The American Archivist", The Society of American Archivists, 1995,
0360-9081, U$85.00/year
%A   The Society of American Archivists
%C   600 S. Federal, Suite 504, Chicago, IL   60605
%E   Teresa Brinati tbrinati@archivists.org
%G   0360-9081
%I   The Society of American Archivists
%O   Quarterly, U$85.00/year, U$25.00 single copies
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%T   "The American Archivist", Vol. 58, 1995

"The American Archivist" is the journal of The Society of American
Archivists (SAA).  Each issue contains six or seven formal papers and
reviews of a number of books in the field.  Most issues include SAA
Council meeting minutes.  The fall issue holds an annual index.

The year's worth of issues provided (volume 58, 1995) had topics
ranging over the political (women's archives), administrative
(processing - cost analysis), legal (admissibility of electronic
records as evidence), educational (use of mailing list archives),
semi-biographical overviews of the work of influential archivists,
historical (punch card records), documentation of archives, and even
high technology (the use of lasers to read old and damaged
phonographic recordings).  All essays are formal papers with abstracts
and biographical information: in keeping with the field under study,
almost all the pieces are very heavily footnoted.

(In reference to the US-centric title, I must say that I am delighted
at the relatively strong contribution being made by my fellow
Canadians.)

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