School of Information Sciences

Richard J. Cox

Professor

614 IS Building
412-624-3245

rcox@sis.pitt.edu
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Institution of highest degree:
Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh

Research Interests:

Archives and records management; history of archives, libraries and the information professions.

Recent Publications:

"The Academic Archives of the Future," EDUCAUSE Review 43 (March/April 2008): 10-11.

"Archival Ethics: The Truth of the Matter," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59, no. 7 (2008): 1128-1133.

Review of Francis X. Blouin, Jr., and William G. Rosenberg, eds., Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory: Essays from the Sawyer Seminar (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006) in Journal of Archival Organization 5, no. 3 (2007): 79-82.

"The Web of Records: The World Wide Web and the Records Professions," Records & Information Management Report 23 (November 2007): 1-14.

"Understanding Archival Texts," Records & Information Management Report 23 (November 2007): 15-16.

"The Web of Records: Blogs and the Records Professions," Records & Information Management Report 23 (December 2007): 1-12.

Book: Personal Archives and a New Archival Calling. Litwin Books, LLC, 2008

Book: With James M. O'Toole, Understanding Archives and Manuscripts. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2006.

Book: Ethics, Accountability and Recordkeeping in a Dangerous World. London: Facet, 2006

 

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