Lanterna Rally

Author: Faye Phillips

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Published: 1996

Total Pages: 218

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Rezension: Phillips has an impressive record of experience collecting and managing U.S. congressional papers, including those of former Louisiana Senator Russell B. Long. She also contributed to 'The Documentation of Congress', published by the Society of American Archivists (1992). In this work she covers the full range of concerns facing a congressional archivist, offering advice on collecting, surveying, organizing, and writing inventories of congressional materials. A section on electronic records is also included. The introduction describes some unique aspects of congressional papers management as an archival specialization and reviews earlier scholarship on the subject. Every practicing congressional archivist should read and use Phillips's excellent book, as should library administrators whose facilities house congressional papers. [Archivists and government documents librarians also may be interested in the National Archives and Records Administration's three-volume 'Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States'.