I have drawn up a short bibliography of published works relating to higher 
education institutional archives.

Many of these writings originate from the U.S. and may include discussion of 
wider university special collections issues, but all have something to say on 
managing institutional archives.

I must confess I have not yet read all of these articles, but I can vouch that 
a number of them are enlightening about various aspects of university 
archives. I  have not included, for the most part, publications from the 1970s 
and 1980s which are now out of date, or anything that relates narrowly to 
records management in universities. The list also does not include unpublished 
papers & presentations on similar themes which may be available on the Web. 

I hope the list may be incorporated in the Higher Education Archivists Group 
website (currently under development). If you know of similar publications, 
perhaps you could share them with the list.

Best wishes,

James Peters
University Archivist

The John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester,
Oxford Road,
Manchester,
M13 9PP.

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Bibliography

Douglas Bicknese, “Institutional repositories and the institution’s repository: 
what is the role of the university archives with the institution’s on-line digital 
repository?” Archival Issues, 28.2. 2003/4, pp. 81-94.

Maynard Brichford (ed.), College & university archives: selected readings 
(Chicago 1979).

Tamar G. Chute, 'Selling the college and university archives: current outreach 
perspectives' Archival Issues. Vol. 25, no. 1/2, 2000, pp. 33-48.

Tamar G Chute and Ellen Swain, ‘Navigating ambiguous waters: providing 
access to student records in the university archives’ American Archivist 
Fall/Winter 2004,  Vol. 67, no. 2, pp. 212-33.

Frances Fournier, ‘“For they would gladly learn and gladly teach”. University 
faculty and their papers: a challenge for archivist’ Archivaria 34, Summer 
1992, pp. 58-74. 

Dorothy Frye, ‘Linking institutional missions to university and college archives 
programs: the Land Grant model’ American Archivist  56.1 Winter 1993, pp.36-
52.

Mark A Greene, ‘Using college and university archives as instructional 
materials: a case study and an exhortation’ Midwestern archivist 14.1, 1988, 
pp. 31-38.

Tom Hyry, Diane Kaplan, and Christine Weideman, ‘"Though this be madness, 
yet there is method in 't": assessing the value of faculty papers and defining a 
collecting policy’ American Archivist 65.1, Spring/Summer 2002 pp.56-69.

Tara Zachary Laver, ‘In a class by themselves: faculty papers at research 
university archives and manuscript collections’ American Archivist 66.1,  Spring 
2003, pp.159-196.

Colleen McFarland, ‘Documenting teaching and learning: practices, attitudes 
and opportunities in college and university archives’ Archival Issues 29, 2005, 
pp. 19-43.

William J Maher, The management of college and university archives 
(Scarecrow Press and Society of American Archivists, Metuchen NJ 1992).

Victoria Peters, ‘Developing archival context standards for functions in the 
higher education sector’ Journal of the Society of Archivists, 26.1, April 2005, 
pp. 75-85.

Christopher Prom and Ellen Swain,  'From the College Democrats to the Falling 
Illini: identifying, appraising, and capturing student organization websites' 
American Archivist 70.2, Fall/Winter 2007, pp.344-363.

Christopher Prom and Ellen Swain (eds.), College and university archives: 
readings in theory and practice (Society of American Archivists, 2008).

Beth Russell & Robin  L. Brandt, ‘Official publications at Texas A & M 
University: a case study in cataloguing archival material’ American Archivist,  
63.1 2000, pp. 175-184.

Helen Willa Samuel, Varsity letters: documenting  modern colleges and 
universities (Society of American Archivists/Scarecrow Press, Lanham MD, 
1998).

Bessie Schina & Garron Wells, 'University archives & records programs' Archival 
Issues 27.1 2002, pp.35-51.

Don Skemer & Geoffrey Williams, 'Managing the records of higher education: 
the state of records management in American colleges and universities' 
American Archivist 53.4,  Fall 1990, pp. 532-547.

Lee Stout, ‘The role of the university archives in the campus information 
environment’ American Archivist, 58.2,  Spring 1995, pp.124-140.

John Straw, ‘From classroom to commons: documenting the total student 
experience in higher education’   Archival Issues 19/1 (1994), pp. 19-29.

Ellen D. Swain, ‘Connecting students of the present, past, and future: an 
activist approach to the collection and use of student documents in the 
university archives’ Journal of Archival Organization, 2.1/2, 2004, pp.39-53.

Elizabeth Yakel and Laura Bost, ‘Understanding administrative use and users in 
college and university archives’ American Archivist, 57.4 Fall 1994 pp.596-615.

Elizabeth Yakel, Soo Young Rieh, Beth St. Jean, Karen Markey and Jihyun 
Kim, “Institutional repositories and the institutional repository: college and 
university archives and special collections in an era of change” American 
Archivist 71.2 Fall/Winter 2008, pp.323-349.

The Journal of Archival Organization,7.1/2, 2009 issue, ‘Dialogues: new 
directions for college, university and schools Archives: proceedings of the New 
England Archivists Fall 2007 Conference’ has several articles relating to 
universities’ institutional archives. I have not yet had a chance to read this 
issue.