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Reappraising and Reaccessioning Wisconsin State Government Records: An Agency-Wide Approach

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Abstract

This paper reviews a four-year reappraisal and reaccessioning project undertaken in the late 1990s at the Wisconsin Historical Society with state government records. After describing how the state archives collections developed in scope and size over the half century since the formation of the Wisconsin State Archives in 1947, this article details the various means employed to achieve greater intellectual and physical control over the records and the acquisition methodologies that lay behind them. Finally, the paper offers some conclusions about the relative success of the project and cautions about the inherent difficulties associated with archival undertakings of this breadth.

How to Cite:

Knies, H. M., (2006) “Reappraising and Reaccessioning Wisconsin State Government Records: An Agency-Wide Approach”, Archival Issues 30(1), 35–43. doi: https://doi.org/10.31274/archivalissues.10948