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Article Excerpt
Their Championship Seasons: Acquiring, Processing, and Using Performing Arts Archives, Edited by Kevin Winkler. (Performing Arts Resources, 22.) New York: Theatre Library Association, 2001. [142 p. ISBN 0-932-61019-6. $30.]
The genre of case study is used as an educational tool in many disciplines. Good case studies teach important lessons about what worked or failed in a practical setting, and, written with enough time for hindsight and analysis, can offer insights into how various processes can be improved. While papers about archival collections and issues are commonly presented at conferences, they are rarely available to a wider audience in publication. The majority of the eight articles in Their Championship Seasons originated as conference or panel papers; all but one qualifies as a case study.
The lone exception to the case study model in this volume is Linda Fairtile's article about the challenge of providing good archival access to manuscript collections in the performing arts, and balancing this need against concerns for privacy. Fairtile presents the legal background of privacy concerns in the United States and examples that demonstrate the complexity of the situations that can occur.
This is especially true in the case of third parties represented in archival collections. For example, letters written by a third party to the creator of a collection were in all likelihood written without the expectation that they would ever be available to the public. In what instances should an archivist consider...
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