pt. 1. About Hugh A. Taylor -- 1. Hugh Taylor: The Far-Away Archivist / Gordon Dodds -- 2. Hugh Taylor: Imagining Archives / Terry Cook -- pt. 2. Essays and Reflections by Hugh A. Taylor -- 3. Archives in Britain and Canada: Impressions of an Immigrant (1969) -- 4. Administrative History: An Archivist's Need (1970) -- 5. The Discipline of History and the Education of the Archivist (1977) -- 6. The Media of Record: Archives in the Wake of McLuhan (1978) -- 7. Documentary Art and the Role of the Archivist (1979) -- 8. Information Ecology and the Archives of the 1980s (1984) -- 9. Transformation in the Archives: Technological Adjustment or Paradigm Shift? (1987-1988) -- 10. "My Very Act and Deed": Some Reflections on the Role of Textual Records in the Conduct of Affairs (1988) -- 11. Towards the New Archivist: The Integrated Professional (1988) -- 12. The Totemic Universe: Appraising the Documentary Future (1990) -- 13. Chip Monks at the Gate: The Impact of Technology on Archives, Libraries, and the User (1991-1992) -- 14. Opening Address to the "Documents That Move and Speak" Symposium (1992) -- 15. Recycling the Past: The Archivist in the Age of Ecology (1993) -- 16. A Life in Archives: Retrospect and Prospect (1993) -- 17. The Archivist, the Letter, and the Spirit (1997) -- Afterword: On Reflection and Imagination.