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Comments on "Management Concepts and Archival Administration"

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Abstract

It is a great pleasure to comment on Dr. Worthy's paper. It is much more to my liking to compliment him, and attempt only to reinforce or elaborate somewhat on the points he has made, than to feel it necessary to criticize or quarrel. Unfortunately, there have been sessions at past professional meetings in which non-archivist speakers have exhibited an almost total lack of knowledge or even interest in what archives are and archivists do. Dr. Worthy not only knows his business–management—but knows, or found out, about archives and archivists, too. Moreover, he did not take this opportunity to impress us with the complexity of his field, making us feel that good management can come only with two years of graduate training in the field and with an arsenal of forms, methods, MBOs, ZBBs, PERTs, decision trees, and means-end chains. Instead, he focused directly upon what we as administrators should be doing: managing rational and well-run archival operations that meet the needs of our institutions and our users, and that provide places that are pleasant and professionally satisfying for the people who work there.

How to Cite:

Holbert, S. E., (1979) “Comments on "Management Concepts and Archival Administration"”, Archival Issues 4(2), 89–94. doi: https://doi.org//archivalissues.8044