Publication Reviews

Richard Berner's Response

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Abstract

Well, I've met my match in combative tone in Ann Pederson's review. She is not alone in expecting a broader treatment of what purports to be a general work on archival theory and practice, and I will not repeat what I wrote about this limitation (pp. 5–7) except to note that to have dealt with an appraisal would have been largely a recap of Maynard Brichford's SAA manual and that doesn't take us far. However, I do suggest that we look at records management as being, at heart, a system of appraisal (98–99, 117–119), a novel idea to which she pays no heed. If I were writing the book now instead of 1980 there would have been a systematic treatment of appraisal in light of Leonard Rapport's "No Grandfather Clause", Uli Haller's "Appraisal in Context" (Provenance, Fall 1983) and some recent items on sampling. And I should have stated that evidential values are reflected better by provenance than by an original order that obscures records provenance.

How to Cite:

Berner, R. C., (1984) “Richard Berner's Response”, Archival Issues 9(1), 45–46. doi: https://doi.org/10.31274/archivalissues.10403