Producing the Archival Body

Perspectives on Archival Resources: The 1985 Census of Archival Institutions

This article is a report on the first comprehensive survey of the resources, responsibilities, and activities of archival repositories in the United States. After placing the study in the context of past surveys of archivists and institutions, and describing its design, the article characterizes the findings on five basic resources common to all archives—money, staff, holdings, facilities, and ...

An unusual foreign body in the vagina producing vesicovaginal fistula.

A case of vasicovaginal fistula occurring in an adolescent unmarried girl following insertion of a matalic glass deep inside the gagine is reported here along with a brief discussion and review of literature.

Archaeologists and the Archival Record

The Wfpc2 Archival Parallels Project

We describe the methods and procedures developed to obtain a near-automatic combination ofWFPC2 images obtained as part of the WFPC2 Archival Pure Parallels program. Several techniques have been developed or refined to ensure proper alignment, registration, and combination of overlapping images that can be obtained at different times and with different orientations. We quantify the success rate...

Archival ethics: The truth of the matter

The task of the philosopher is neither to belittle truth nor to exalt it, neither to deny it nor to defend it, but to explain why we need the concept and what it is to possess it. (Dummett, 2004, p. 116)