Measure for Measure: A Useful Archival Glossary
- Todd Daniels-Howell
- Mark A. Greene
- Lydia Lucas
Abstract
In 1992, Lewis Bellardo and Lynn Lady Bellardo published an updated Glossary for Archivists, Manuscript Curators, and Records Managers as part of SAA’s Archival Fundamentals Series. The glossary was an impressive achievement. Still, notable flaws exist in it. A review of the Glossary by Terry Eastwood in American Archivist (summer 1992) criticizes particularly the authors’ failure to clearly distinguish the meaning of such fundamental terms as records from archives and primary value from secondary value. In concluding, Eastwood opined that, Much as this effort is an improvement on the earlier, groundbreaking Evans glossary, there is still a considerable way to go. Certainly he is right, but we think he missed the major shortcoming of this as well as of previous glossaries.
How to Cite:
Daniels-Howell, T., Greene, M. A. & Lucas, L., (2000) “Measure for Measure: A Useful Archival Glossary”, MAC Newsletter 27(3), 1,4-5.
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