I completed Benedict's Ethics and the Archival Profession yesterday. Even though it's framed around the 1992 Code of Ethics, the substance of the updated 2005 Code of Ethics is essentially the same so the book was definitely beneficial. The case studies were probably the most helpful to me. I recognized my own institution in several of them, which wasn't exactly heartening, but at least our shortcomings do not encompass any of the illegal or even questionable activities covered in the case studies. To the best of my knowledge we're above board but should probably work on closing some loopholes in our donor agreements and a clear collection development policy wouldn't hurt us either.
19 days to go. Planning to finish Selecting and Appraising this weekend and starting Managing Archival & Manuscript Repositories if I have time. My new lunchtime reading is Cook's What is Past is Prologue.
I'm also training for an 8k run. Only 22 days until that one. Fortunately, the regular training runs are helping with my energy and attention levels.
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