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Burke, Frank Gerard was born on April 22, 1927 in New York City. Son of James Francis and Eleanor Josephine (Thomas) Burke.
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Researchers faced with using documentary sources for the first time, such as correspondence, diaries, and literary manuscripts, are plunged into a world far different from the familiar library setting, with its card or computer catalogs, bibliographies, and other resource-finding tools. Over and over, studies of research methodology among scholars reveal that they learn by some sort of collegial osmosis and general fumbling about until they figure things out. There is an easier way. Burke explains the professional techniques employed by archivists and manuscript curators, describing what they do and why, so the beginning researcher has a foundation for understanding how to search and access personal papers. Burke surveys problems of organization, access, alternative sources, and legal issues with amusing anecdotes and examples. Research and the Manuscript Tradition is a reflection on using manuscripts for research, administering manuscript and archival collections and institutions, and the lessons learned from teaching a manuscripts administration course for more than twenty years. It provides a solid theoretical base as well as practical advice and a glimpse of the satisfaction that can come from working with personal papers. Contents: Yuan Shih-Kai, Harriet Monroe, and the Manuscript Tradition; The Recovery of Reality; Opening the Doors to Scholarship; Gathering the Evidence; Mapping the Roads to the Past; Tradition Confronts Technology; Organizing a Life; Good Deeds Do Not Go Unrewarded; The Cultural Crypt; Not by Vaults and Locks...; Law, Curatorial Ethics, and the Researcher; Personal Communication in the Electronic Age.
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Burke, Frank Gerard was born on April 22, 1927 in New York City. Son of James Francis and Eleanor Josephine (Thomas) Burke.
Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 1959, Doctor of Philosophy, 1969. Radio operator Trans World Airlines, Washington, 1948-1951. Communicator Civil Aeronautics Administration, Fairbanks, Alaska and Oklahoma City, 1952-1954.
Announcer, engineer Alaska Broadcasting Company, Fairbanks, 1955, Northwest Airlines, 1955-1960. Librarian University of Chicago, 1959-1960, bookkeeper, 1960-1961, manuscript curator, 1962-1964. Instructor Chicago Teachers College, 1961-1962.
Manuscript curator Library ofCongress, Washington, 1964-1967. Special assistant for information retrieval National Archives and Records Service, Washington, 1967-1968, assistant archivist forednl. programs, 1968-1974. Assistant to archivist United States National Archives, Washington, 1974-1975.
Executive director National History Publs. and Records Commission, National Archives, Washington, 1975-1984, acting assistant archivist Office of National Archives, 1984-1985. Acting archivist, deputy archivist United States National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, 1985-1987. Professor of University Maryland.
College Library. and Information Superior vena cava syndrome, College Park, 1988-1996, professor emeritus, 1996, instructor College Library. and Information Science, 1974-1988. Instructor history New York University, 1981-1985, Western Archives Institute, Palo Alto, California, 1997, 99.
Radio operator Trans World Airlines, Washington, 1948-1951. Communicator Civil Aeronautics Administration, Fairbanks, Alaska, and Oklahoma City, 1952-1954. Announcer, engineer Alaska Broadcasting Company, 1955, Northwest Airlines, 1955-1960.
Librarian University Chicago, 1959-1960, bookkeeper, 1960-1961, manuscript curator, 1962-1964. Instructor Chicago Teachers College, 1961-1962. Manuscript curator Library of Congress, Washington, 1967-1968.
Special assistant for information retrieval National Archives and Records Service, 1967-1968, assistant archivist for educational programs, 1968-1974. Assistant to archivist United States National Archives, 1974-1975. Executive director National History Publications and Records Commission, National Archives, 1975-1984, acting assistant archivist Office of National Archives, 1984-1985.
Acting archivist, deputy archivist United States National Archives and Records Administration, 1985-1986. Instructor history New York University, 1981-1985, Western Archives Institute, Palo Alto, California, 1997, 99.
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Fellow Society of America Archivists (vice president, president 1990-1992). Member American History Association, Association for Documentary Editing (vice president, president 1989-1991), Society for History in Federal Government, Manuscript Society, Cosmos Club (Washington), Potomac River Jazz Club (Virginia, board directors since 1990, president 1991-1992).
Married Hildegard Waltraud Arndt, August 1, 1959. Children: Margaret Eleanor, Catherine Elizabeth, Christina Hildegard, Thomas Francis, Elisabeth Maria.