SAA's New Book Models an Empathy-Driven Approach to Accessing Protected Records

CHICAGO—Providing Access to Privacy-Protected Records at Public Institutions in the Age of Radical Empathy: Cases and Considerations, the latest installment in the Society of American Archivist’s Trends in Archives Practice series, offers practical strategies for revising access restrictions to legally and ethically protected records at public institutions.

Authors Megan K. Friedel, Ashlyn Velte, and Jamie Marie Wagner, three archivists from the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries’ Archives, provide decision-making models to help archivists balance “community input, institutional needs, and legal demands with the archivist’s social justice imperative.” The case studies in this book examine access considerations for three types of privacy-protected records: grand jury, law enforcement, and human subject research records.

Stay up to date with the profession with this newest installment of Trends in Archival Practice. Learn more about Providing Access to Privacy-Protected Records in the SAA Bookstore.