Documenting society and institutions : the influence of Helen Willa Samuels. Documenting society. Documenting appraisal as a societal-archival process : theory, practice, and ethics in the wake of Helen Willa Samuels -- Traveling in a Hellenic world : an odyssey from oral history and documentation strategy to continuing issues and integrated recordkeeping -- The archival garden : photographic plantings, interpretive choices, and alternative narratives -- The complication of color in an academic archive -- Technology's promise, the copying of records, and the archivist's challenge : a case study in documentation rhetoric -- Brown shoes in a world of tuxedos : corporate archives and the archival profession -- A cautionary tale about laws, records, and technology : making a case for electronic records management -- Keeping records in changing organizations -- The tower, the cloud, and posterity : documenting in a digital world -- Representing archives : being archival. Structural formalisms in documentation : reflecting function and supporting meaning -- Who represents the past? Archives, records, and the social web -- Designs for records and recordkeeping : visual presentation in diplomatics, the record continuum, and documentation strategy -- The evolution of archival practice and the history-archival divide -- The archivist's perspective : the history of an idea -- Ethics and the archive : "an incessant movement of recontextualisation" -- How archivists "control the past" -- Reflections. Making better professionals : reflections on selected writings of Helen Willa Samuels -- Learnings : weaving it all together.