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Prompt: Review Jenkinson's description of the role of an archivist below. Identify a phrase that you find interesting. What do you find interesting about it?

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Prompt: Review Jenkinson's description of the role of an archivist below. Identify a phrase that you find interesting. What do you find interesting about it?

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The Archivist's career is one of service. He exists in order to make other people's work possible.... His Creed, the Sanctity of Evidence; his Task, the Conservation of every scrap of Evidence attaching to the Documents committed to his charge; his aim to provide, without prejudice or afterthought, for all who wish to know the Means of Knowledge.... The good Archivist is perhaps the most selfless devotee of Truth the modern world produces.

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Elizabeth Batiuk:  Two things stand out to me at first. The idea of the "selfless devotee of Truth" and the role of the archivist as service. It seems entrenched in a conception of knowledge as objective, both in science and other fields. But it seems worthwhile to think about the role of archives in providing the means of accountability - to challenge dominant ideas that might be not true. Then the role of the archivist as service seems potentially problematic and contradictory with the pursuit of truth in some cases. One of the readings criticized Jenkinson's view as portraying the role of the archivist as passive  ...

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Elizabeth Batiuk:  Two things stand out to me at first. The idea of the "selfless devotee of Truth" and the role of the archivist as service. It seems entrenched in a conception of knowledge as objective, both in science and other fields. But it seems worthwhile to think about the role of archives in providing the means of accountability - to challenge dominant ideas that might be not true. Then the role of the archivist as service seems potentially problematic and contradictory with the pursuit of truth in some cases. One of the readings criticized Jenkinson's view as portraying the role of the archivist as passive  ...

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This suggests to me that an archivist can be truly objective without any biases, which I think is an outdated idea. Something that interests me about archiving is claiming that archivists do have biases, privilege, and power, and that claiming and taking accountability for that that is an important aspect of growth in the field. - Kelsey

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"His Creed, the Sanctity of Evidence; his Task, the Conservation of every scrap of Evidence attaching to the Documents committed to his charge; his aim to provide, without prejudice or afterthought, for all who wish to know the Means of Knowledge"
I found it interesting to define the archivist's job in terms of a creed, task, and aim. It reminds me of something my mom and grandpa told me growing up, a system of "three D's," desire, drive, and determination.

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"every scrap of evidence"—that is a tall order, but I suspect he's saying that you have to preserve everything you're appraised and deemed valuable, not that you have to deem everything you find as valuable.

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"The Archivist's career is one of service" -Taylor Wegner

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"The Archivist's career is one of service" -Taylor Wegner

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This goes back to the more pejorative classification of archivists as mere handmaidens to those from other disciplines. More on archival work not existing as a profession in its own right. The service component remains a necessary and worthwhile aspect of the field, but it is not the only or primary part.

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"Selfless devotee of Truth"

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"He exists in order to make other people's work possible" -this suggests that what the archivist does is not work, or that it is not as important as the work of historians (interestingly, this seems to indicate some of the dismissal of archivists as professionals as opposed to academics that Caswell discusses in her article, although without the gendered component)

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He exists in order to make other people's work possible

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He exists in order to make other people's work possible

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An archive exists for the benefit of others, historians, politicians, teachers, etc. If archivists don't conserve and steward the archive, it doesn't exist for others to use it - Megan

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Nic Ciccone: "selfless devotee of Truth" seems to encourage a spirit of objectivity, or at least to be as objective as possible.

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Nic Ciccone: "selfless devotee of Truth" seems to encourage a spirit of objectivity, or at least to be as objective as possible.

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"The Archivist's career is one of service" dictates all of his or her work. We exist to provide a service to our patrons, whoever those people might be.

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"The Archivist's career is one of service" dictates all of his or her work. We exist to provide a service to our patrons, whoever those people might be.

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"The Archivist's career is one of service."
What stands out to me is Jenkinson's identification of the archivist as an actor. This hints at the conception of the archivist as a "handmaiden to historians" that Caswell criticizes,  but also makes me think of the implicit criticism in Hartman's piece, that if the archive is founded on violence, the archivist is also implicated.

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"The good Archivist is perhaps the most selfless devotee of Truth..." 

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"The good Archivist is perhaps the most selfless devotee of Truth..." 

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What sticks out to me about this phrase is the idea that "truth" is separate from the mission, values, goals of archives or their archivist(s). and that anyone who has bias, or a personal goal (good or bad) isn't the best kind of archivist, according to Jenkinson's definition. There is a definitely an argument for neutrality/objectivity here that doesn't seem as present now, in 2020.

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"He exists in order to make other people's work possible"-->Suggesting that archivists are like stepping stones for other professionals. It's interesting in that this viewpoint has changed over the years, where many would argue that archivists are the center/most important role in preserving history

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"Selfless devotee of the the Truth" sticks out to me because it cements the field as a "service industry." 

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"Selfless devotee of the the Truth" sticks out to me because it cements the field as a "service industry." 

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"without prejudice or afterthought"
A good archivist must be objective.

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"The good Archivist is perhaps the most selfless devotee of Truth the modern world produces" I found this interesting when thinking of our readings for this lecture in the ways that truth can be obscured, or that archives will always have flaws in that they are affected by the ethics and other factors of the archivists working with the archive at any given time, so how can one reach the "good Archivist" ideal that Jenkinson describes?

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"The good Archivist is perhaps the most selfless devotee of truth"

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"The good Archivist is perhaps the most selfless devotee of truth"

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This stands out because the term "selfless" is emphasized to speak to the character of the Archivist. I wondering if we should even search for the truth in the first place?

- Jordan Ross

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A phrase that sticks out to me is "the conservation of every scrap of evidence attaching to the documents..." This would be utterly impossible in reality. I'm curious if Jenkinson was only referring to that "evidence" which was already deemed necessary to be archived.

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"His Creed, the Sanctity of Evidence" and "the most selfless devotee of Truth the modern world produces." makes Jenkinson's description sound almost like dogma

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"The archivist's career is one of service"

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"The archivist's career is one of service"

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"his aim to provide, without prejudice or afterthought, for all who wish to know the Means of Knowledge."  - Is interesting because it assumes the archivists objectivity without considering their cultural context or lack thereof of certain subjects within an archive.  - Tulani

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"his aim to provide, without prejudice or afterthought, for all who wish to know the Means of Knowledge."  - Is interesting because it assumes the archivists objectivity without considering their cultural context or lack thereof of certain subjects within an archive.  - Tulani

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"his aim to provide, without prejudice or afterthought".  It sticks out to me and feels like a line that fits modern context extremely well. - Curtis Hunt

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suggests archival work as divine, sacred or holy, which connects with the pursuit of Truth as a guiding value.

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Also very biased towards cis men -- constant use of pronoun "he, him, his" as opposed to something more gender-neutral.

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Also very biased towards cis men -- constant use of pronoun "he, him, his" as opposed to something more gender-neutral.