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Elizabeth H. Dow - Archivists, Collectors, Dealers, and Replevin - 9780810883772 - V9780810883772
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Archivists, Collectors, Dealers, and Replevin

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Description for Archivists, Collectors, Dealers, and Replevin Hardback. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 16. Weight in Grams: 372.
Today, government archivists and manuscript collectors are often in conflict over government-created documents that come up for sale out of private hands. Such manuscripts are often archival material that escaped government control, and government archivists want that missing material back to complete the historic record. Collectors and dealers, however, assert that since the government didn’t take care of their documents properly at the time of their creation, they lost the right to claim them now. This divide between government archivists and collectors has become especially acute for “trophy” documents written by a person of note or about a well-known person ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810883772
SKU
V9780810883772
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Elizabeth H. Dow
Elizabeth H. Dow directs the archives track in the School of Library and Information Science at Louisiana State University. She is the author of Creating EAD-Compatible Finding Guides on Paper (Scarecrow Press, 2005) and Electronic Records in the Manuscript Repository (Scarecrow Press, 2009).

Reviews for Archivists, Collectors, Dealers, and Replevin
This is valuable to any archival collection where public documents are maintained, acquired, and sought out. Future archival students will also benefit from the unbiased approach, respecting all sides of the situation.
American Reference Books Annual
The first-ever book-length study tackles a controversial legal principle that the public is unaware of and that most attorney’s are only vaguely ... Read more

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