Privacy and Confidentiality Perspectives Archivists and Archival Records

by Menzi L. Behrnd-Klodt (Editor), Peter J. Wosh (Editor)

Menzi L. Behrnd-Klodt

400 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Lucy]

Check out Mt. Holyoke reference in Judith Schwarz's "The Archivist's Balancing Act: Helping Researchers while Protecting Individual Privacy." Sara Hodson's "In Secret Kept, in Silence Sealed: Privacy in the Papers of Authors and Celebrities" is also pretty fascinating.

[Callan]

this book really helped me understand the importance - and ambiguity - when it comes to privacy in the archival/library setting. it got me wondering about how much i personally value my "right to privacy," and somewhere around the last two articles or so, i realized that i'm not especially militant about it. that may be due in large part to my high levels of web 2.0 exposure, but who knows for sure? the point is, i think i come down on the side of opening more access, vs. closing resources off to people due to family-reputation-based hangups.