Archiving psychiatric records: Exploring the ethics, privacy, and access issues of archiving mental health records

The purpose of this study was to understand how archivists perceive the value and ethics of acquiring and preserving psychiatric records despite cases where providing access to records is impossible due to privacy reasons. A study similar to this has not been located in the existing literature and therefore this study would have informed the archives field to how psychiatric hospital records are viewed. Member archivists and librarians of the Society of American Archivists would have been surveyed and four would have been interviewed as well to gain both breadth and depth on the research question. IRB approval was not received and therefore the study was not conducted.Master of Science in Library Scienc