- Contributors
Heather Beattie is an archivist in description and client services at the Hudson's Bay Company Archives in Winnipeg, Manitoba. A graduate of the University of Manitoba archival studies program, she received the Association for Manitoba Archives Thesis of Distinction award. Her research interests include the intersections of record keeping, gender, and the environment. She also holds a master's degree in political science.
Tom Belton is senior archivist, University of Western Ontario, and an instructor in the university's library and information science program. A certified archivist, he holds a master's degree in public history from the University of Waterloo in Ontario. His research interests include the history of documents and records and resource discovery in archives. He has written a number of articles on document analysis and the relationship between archives and records management.
Barbara L. Craig teaches in the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto and is the former reviews editor of the American Archivist and general editor of Archivaria. She holds a doctorate in archive studies from the University of London. The author of Archival Appraisal (2005), she is currently researching the impact of technologies on knowledge and records management in British Civil Service offices before 1960. Along with Philip Eppard and Heather MacNeil, she organized and mounted the first International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (I-CHORA) in 2003. She has published papers in the fields of medical history, archives theory, professional practices, and technology history.
Jennifer Douglas is a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto. She earned a master of arts degree in English from the University of Victoria and a master of archival studies degree from the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on archival theory of arrangement and description and its applicability to personal records. Other interests include the history of record making and keeping and the impact of digitization on archives. [End Page 153]
Eric Ketelaar, professor of archivistics (archival science) at the University of Amsterdam, is the former general state archivist (national archivist) of the Netherlands and former president of the Royal Society of Dutch Archivists. He has presented papers at numerous conferences and seminars on archival training, legislation, professional ethics, standards, access, appraisal, and electronic records. He is the author of the UNESCO guidelines of archives and records management legislation as well as some 250 articles and several books, including two general introductions on archival research and a handbook on Dutch archives and records management law. He received L.L.M. and L.L.D. degrees from Leiden University.
Rachel Joanne Mills is a private records archivist at the Archives of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She has a master of arts degree in history from the Universities of Manitoba and Winnipeg and a master of archival studies degree from the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include archival appraisal and the history of record keeping and personal records.
Susan Palmer is archivist at Sir John Soane's Museum, London, and the author of The Soanes at Home: Domestic Life at Lincoln's Inn Fields (1987). She has also published a number of articles relating to gardens in the London area.
Geoffrey Yeo is the editor of Principles and Practice in Records Management and Archives and coauthor of Managing Records: A Handbook of Principles and Practice (2003). He teaches courses in archival description and records management at University College London. Research interests include the nature of records and archives as unitary and collective entities; the relationship of records to the actions of individuals and organizations; classification and description of records and archives; and digital and online systems for archives and records management.
Mary Saracino Zboray is visiting scholar in communication at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her master of arts degree in anthropology from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York City and did doctoral work while a Smithsonian fellow in the American studies program at George Washington University. She has coauthored sixteen articles and essays on cultural history and the history of the book as well as three books: A Handbook for the Study of...