The Ethical Archivist

摘要

The Society of American Archivists has an excellent track record of publishing books on professional practice and this latest volume deserves to be widely read on both sides of the Atlantic and indeed is worthy of becoming a core text on all archival and records management training programmes. The author is an acknowledged expert on the subject of the ethical dilemmas of archival practice, on which she has been writing since 1985. Her consummate knowledge is presented in a clear, straightforward manner which makes the volume accessible to both the professional practitioner and to the lay person. It is both thought provoking and serves to illustrate the absolute centrality of the issue of ethics to archival and records management professional practice. She is absolutely correct in her assertion that ethical considerations and dilemmas concern all aspects of our professional practice, even its most routine facets, and that consequently it is a subject which we should all keep uppermost in our minds as we make decisions on a daily basis about our collections.