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Terry Cook (archivist)

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During his time at the National Archives, he established himself as a respected voice in archival theory, particularly for the development of macroappraisal. He worked as an archival consultant at Clio Consulting from 1996 to 2014. In 1998, he became a professor in the Archival Studies Program at the
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and series systems of arrangement and description, the contrast between analogue and digital thinking and relations between archivists and historians. Cook revealed the agency of the archivist and pushed archivists to deeply consider their role in the shaping of the historical record. He also urged
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from 1975 to 1998 and received international acceptance. It is a method for deciding which small percentage of archived materials should be kept while destroying the rest.
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Terry Cook was instrumental in the development of archival theory at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. His scholarship covered
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Cook, Terry. "Electronic records, paper minds: the revolution in information management and archives in the post-custodial and post-modernist era."
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Cook's most noted contribution to archival appraisal theory was the development of macroappraisal, which he developed during his time at the
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Cook, Terry. "Leaving Archival Electronic Records in Institutions: Policy and Monitoring Arrangements at the National Archives of Canada."
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Cook, Terry. "The Imperative of Challenging Absolutes" in Graduate Archival Education Programs: Issues for Educators and the Profession."
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Cook, Terry. "An archival revolution: W. Kaye Lamb and the transformation of the archival profession." Archivaria 60 (2005): 185-234.
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Cook, Terry. "CHR Forum: The Archive (s) Is a Foreign Country: Historians, Archivists, and the Changing Archival Landscape."
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Cook, Terry. "Viewing the world upside down: reflections on the theoretical underpinnings of archival public programming."
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Cook, T. and J. M. Schwartz. (2002). "Archives, Records, and Power: From (Postmodern) Theory to (Archival) Performance."
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Cook, Terry. "Macroappraisal in theory and practice: origins, characteristics, and implementation in Canada, 1950–2000."
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Cook, Terry. "Another brick in the wall; Terry Eastwood’s masonry and archival walls, history and archival appraisal."
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Cook, Terry, and Joan M. Schwartz. "Archives, Records, and Power: From (Postmodern) Theory to (Archival) Performance."
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Cook, Terry. "The impact of David Bearman on modern archival thinking: an essay of personal reflection and critique."
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Cook, Terry. "Bucks for your Bytes: Monetary Appraisal for Tax Credit of Private-Sector Electronic Database Records."
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Cook, Terry, and Joan M. Schwartz, eds. "Archives, Records and Power." Two double-length special thematic issues of
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Cook, Terry. "The archive (s) is a foreign country: Historians, archivists, and the changing archival landscape."
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Cook, Terry. "What is past is prologue: a history of archival ideas since 1898, and the future paradigm shift."
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Cook, Terry. "The Archive(s) Is a Foreign Country: Historians, Archivists, and the Changing Archival Landscape"
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Cook, Terry. "Many are called but few are chosen: Appraisal Guidelines for Sampling and Selecting Case Files."
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Cook, Terry. "From the Record to its Context: The Theory and Practice of Archival Appraisal Since Jenkinson."
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Cook, Terry. "Byte-ing off what you can chew: electronic records strategies for small archival institutions."
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Controlling the past : documenting society and institutions : essays in honor of Helen Willa Samuels
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Cook, Terry. "The Concept of the Archival Fonds in the Post-Custodial Era: Theory, Problems and Solutions."
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Cook, Terry. "Fashionable nonsense or professional rebirth: postmodernism and the practice of archives."
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Cook, Terry. "Macro‐appraisal and functional analysis: documenting governance rather than government 1."
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Cook, Terry. "Shadows in the Canadian Archival Zeitgeist: The Jeremiad of Terry Eastwood Reconsidered."
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Cook, Terry. "‘We are what we keep; we keep what we are’: archival appraisal past, present and future."
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Cook, Terry. "Archives Yesterday: A Glimpse at the Enthusiasms and Tribulations of Sir Arthur Doughty"
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Cook, Terry. "Leaving Safe and Accustomed Ground: Ideas for Archivists." Archivaria 23 (1986): 123-128.
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The archival appraisal of records containing personal information : a RAMP study with guidelines
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Cook, Terry. "" Some of the Books are Worn Out": The Klondike Gold Rush and Records Conservation."
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Cook, Terry. "Easy to byte, harder to chew: the second generation of electronic records archives."
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Cook, Terry. "Legacy in Limbo: An Introduction to the Records of the Department of the Interior."
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Cook, Terry. "Keeping our Electronic Memory: Approaches for Securing Computer-Generated Records."
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Cook, Terry. “A Monumental Blunder: The Destruction of Records on Nazi War Criminals in Canada.”
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Cook, Terry. " 'A Reconstruction of the World': George R. Parkin's British Empire Map of 1893,"
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Cook, Terry. “Paper Trails: A Study in Northern Records and Records Administration, 1898-1958."
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Dr. Terry Cook was born in Vancouver in 1947. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the
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Cook, Terry. "Evidence, memory, identity, and community: four shifting archival paradigms."
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Cook, Terry. "Beyond the Screen: The Records Continuum and Archival Cultural Heritage." In
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Cook, Terry. "Archives, Automation, and Access: The Vancouver Island Project Revisited."
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edited by W. R. Morrison and Ken Coates. Canada: Captus University Publications, 1989.
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Cook, Terry. "Archival science and postmodernism: new formulations for old concepts."
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Cook, Terry. "From information to knowledge: an intellectual paradigm for archives."
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Paris : United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, 1991.
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edited by Barbara Craig, 38-70. Ottawa: Association of Canadian Archivists, 1992.
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Cook, Terry. "Building an Archives: Appraisal Theory for Architectural Records."
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Cook, Terry. "Mind Over Matter: Towards a New Theory of Archival Appraisal." In
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edited by Lucy Burrows, 8-21. Melbourne: Australian Society of Archivists, 2000.
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Edited by Terry Cook and Gordon Dodds. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
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Cook, Terry. "Nailing Jelly to a Wall: Possibilities in Intellectual History."
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In Archives and the Public Good: Accountability and Records in Modern Society
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His wife is Sharon Anne Cook, a historian and professor of education at the
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Edited by Terry Cook. Chicago : Society of American Archivists, 2011.
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Cook, Terry. "The Tyranny of the Medium: A Comment on" Total Archives"."
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Cook, Terry. "Rites of passage: the archivist and the information age."
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Cook, Terry. "From the Editor: W. Kaye Lamb, Archives and Libraries."
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Cook, Terry. "VINCENT, Consolidated Liberator and Boeing Fortress."
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Cook, Terry. "It's Ten O'Clock: Do You Know Where Your Data Are?"
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Cook, Terry. "From the Editor: Archival Networks and Congresses."
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In 'For Purposes of Dominion': Essays in Honour of Morris Zaslow,
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in 2009. His first job was at the Public Archives of Canada (now
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Cook, Terry. "Freedom of Information: The Role of the Courts."
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Archival Science: International Journal on Recorded Information
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Imagining Archives: Essays and Reflections of Hugh A. Taylor
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Cook, Terry. "Media Myopia." Archivaria 12 (1981): 146-157.
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The Archival Imagination: Essays in Honour of Hugh Taylor,
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Beyond the Screen: Capturing Corporate and Social Memory,
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Contributions to Archival Theory and Notable Achievements
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archivists to be transparent in their interventions
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Cook was named a Fellow of the 34:in 1969, his Master of Arts from 585:ACA Award Recipient Biographies. 367:33, (Winter 1991-1992): 202-216. 297:59, no 2 (Spring 1996): 136-143. 309:Archives and Museum Informatics 288:Archives and Museum Informatics 546:Nesmith, Tom (29 April 2015). 488:9 (Winter 1979-1980): 141-149. 316:South African Archives Journal 302:South African Archives Journal 211:25, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 5-18. 123:Society of American Archivists 64:Society of American Archivists 1: 412:25 (Winter 1987-1988): 73-83. 464:15 (Winter 1982-1983): 2-4. 204:5, no. 2-4 (2005): 101-161. 150:13, no. 2-3 (2013): 95-120. 116:Library and Archives Canada 72:Library and Archives Canada 44:National Archives of Canada 42:in 1977. He worked for the 771: 436:20 (Summer 1985): 231-237. 429:22 (Summer 1986): 254-257. 422:22 (Summer 1986): 156-162. 332:22, no. 2 (1994): 300-328. 248:2, no. 3-4 (2002):171–185. 187:90, no. 3 (2009): 497-534. 185:Canadian Historical Review 173:32, no. 2 (2011): 173-189. 166:74, no. 2 (2011): 600-632. 495:6 (Summer 1978): 156-158. 311:9, no. 2 (1995): 141-49. 474:21, no. 4 (1981): 53-65. 330:Archives and Manuscripts 290:11, no. 1 (1997): 15-37. 86:Personal life and family 82:, and Archival Science. 548:"Terry Cook, 1947–2014" 178:The American Archivist. 135:Royal Society of Canada 121:In 2002, he earned the 655:University of Manitoba 598:Retrieved 16 May 2014. 457:16 (Summer 1983): 3-4. 295:The American Archivist 267:The American Archivist 262:1, no. 1 (2001): 3-24. 164:The American Archivist 60:University of Manitoba 52:University of Manitoba 32:University of Alberta 92:University of Ottawa 66:and a Fellow of the 735:Canadian archivists 681:The Globe and Mail. 613:The Globe and Mail. 558:(Spring): 207–213. 481:11 (1980): 205-218. 398:31 (1990): 123-134. 391:31 (1990): 171-176. 346:34 (1992): 181-191. 194:62 (2007): 121-125. 54:from 1998 to 2012. 36:Carleton University 694:Archival Science 2 590:2015-02-04 at the 527:List of archivists 516:1 (1975): 113-115. 509:5 (1977): 198-203. 502:5 (1977): 222-223. 339:37 (1994): 96-103. 104:archival appraisal 80:American Archivist 48:archival appraisal 46:, specializing in 40:Queen's University 16:Canadian archivist 450:17 (1983): 13-17. 443:19 (1984): 28-49. 384:32 (1991): 25-50. 353:35 (1992): 24-37. 323:Technology Review 318:37 (1995): 79-95. 304:37 (1995): 32-52. 283:43 (1997): 17-63. 255:51 (2001): 14-35. 762: 697: 690: 684: 673: 667: 666: 664: 662: 647: 641: 640: 638: 637: 622: 616: 605: 599: 581: 575: 574: 572: 570: 543: 260:Archival science 246:Archival Science 202:Archival Science 148:Archival Science 770: 769: 765: 764: 763: 761: 760: 759: 715: 714: 706: 701: 700: 691: 687: 674: 670: 660: 658: 649: 648: 644: 635: 633: 624: 623: 619: 606: 602: 592:Wayback Machine 582: 578: 568: 566: 545: 544: 540: 535: 523: 143: 100: 88: 28: 17: 12: 11: 5: 768: 766: 758: 757: 752: 747: 742: 737: 732: 727: 717: 716: 713: 712: 705: 704:External links 702: 699: 698: 685: 668: 657:. 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Controlling the past : documenting society and institutions : essays in honor of Helen Willa Samuels
Imagining Archives: Essays and Reflections of Hugh A. Taylor
The archival appraisal of records containing personal information : a RAMP study with guidelines
List of archivists
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