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Archiving Bibliography


Archiving Section Newsletter of the American Folklore Society. (In collection at the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress.)

Bell, Krista and Alana Paige Kimbel. 1996. Archives, Folklore. In American Folklore: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland. 45-46.

Bell, Michael Edward. 1983. Indexing a Folklore Collection: Balance, Flexibility, and the Empathizing Indexer. In Handbook of American Folklore, ed. Richard M. Dorson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Cooley, Martha. 1997. The Archivist. (Novel. Quiet, deliberate archivist Matt finds his literary and emotional domain under attack from strong-willed poet Roberta, whose demands and reasons for viewing a secret cache of T.S. Eliot letters too pointedly recall his own dead wife and her struggles with Judaism and literature.

Corsaro, James and Karen Taussig-Lux. 1998. Folklore in Archives: a Guide to Describing Folklore and Folklife Materials. Schenectady: New York Folklore Society.

Derrida, Jacques. 1996. Archive Fever. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Folklife Center News, Newsletter of American Folklife Center.

Hall, Stephanie. 1997. Archives and Archiving. In Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music and Art. Editor Thomas A. Green. Vol. I. Denver: ABC-CLIO.

Hall, Stephanie. 1995. Ethnographic Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture. Washington DC: American Folklife Center.

Hickerson, Joseph C. 1983. Developing a Folklore Archive. In Handbook of American Folklore, ed. Richard M. Dorson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Ives, Edward. 1983-1984. The Northeast Archives. (The Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History: A Catalog of the First 1800 Accessions) Northeast Folklore 14 & 15: 5-19.

Jones, Michael Owen. 1995. Folkloristics. [Section on the history of folklore study].

List, George. 1972. Archiving. In Folklore and Folklife: An Introduction. Ed. Richard M. Dorson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Suter, John. 1995. Working with Folk Materials in New York State: A Manual for Folklorists and Archivists. New York Folklore Society. Section on archiving. (607-273-9137; P.O. Box 130 Newfield, NY 14867)

Toelken, Barre. 1996 [1979]. The Dynamics of Folklore. Salt Lake City: Utah State University Press. Section on archives.


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