USF Intro to Anthropology - Research and Native American Communities Resource Guide: Archival Protocols and Policies

Archives exist both to preserve historic materials and to make them available for use. This guide addresses the second purpose by outlining the functions and procedures of archives, and is designed both for first time archives users and scholars who have already conducted research in archives.

This page provides an overview of where to find information about the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials (PNAAM) publication, as well as reports about what has occurred within SAA via the Task Force to Review the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials (2008) and the Native American Protocols Forum Task Force (2009-2011).

The creation of the American Philosophical Society Protocols for the Treatment of Indigenous Materials is the result of 3 years of close collaboration between the APS library staff, led by Librarian Martin Levitt,1 and the APS’s Native American Advisory Board, headed by Robert Miller, an enrolled member of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of
Oklahoma and a law professor at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.

ALA's Code of Ethics is the responsibility of the Committee on Professional Ethics (COPE). The Code of Ethics is the document that translates the values of intellectual freedom that define the profession of librarianship into broad principles that may be used by individual members of that profession as well as by others employed in a library as a framework for dealing with situations involving ethical conflicts.