Heather MacNeil

Heather MacNeil is a professor at the Faculty of Information of the University of Toronto, Canada. She teaches archives and record keeping related topics. She is general editor of Archivaria and helped develop the concept of the Archival bond.

Bill Landis, Head of Public Services, Manuscripts and Archives at Yale University Library, nominated MacNeil's 2005 paper "Picking Our Text: Archival Description, Authenticity, and the Archivist as Editor" as his favourite article from American Archivist, saying "Heather MacNeil does an incredible job of unpacking the hidden assumptions we've developed as a profession ...".[1]

Selected publications

  • Without consent : the ethics of disclosing personal information in public archives (1992, American Society of Archivists ISBN 9780810825819)
  • Trusting Records: Legal, Historical, and Diplomatic Perspectives (2000, Dordrecht: Kluwer ISBN 0792365992)
  • (edited, with Terry Eastwood) Currents of Archival Thinking (2010, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Libraries Unlimited; 2nd ed 2017 ISBN 978-1440839085)

References

  1. ↑ ""Picking Our Text" by Heather MacNeil [favorite article of Bill Landis]". American Society of Archivists. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
    MacNeil, Heather (2005). "Picking Our Text: Archival Description, Authenticity, and the Archivist as Editor". American Archivist. 68 (2): 264–278. doi:10.17723/aarc.68.2.01u65t6435700337. Retrieved 29 December 2017.


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