David B. Gracy II
Governor Bill Daniel Professor Emeritus
Biography
Dr. Gracy worked in the Texas State Archives and University of Texas Archives before becoming Archivist, Southern Labor Archives, Georgia State University, and then Director, Texas State Archives. He is a former President of both the Society of American Archivists and the Academy of Certified Archivists, and a Fellow of the Texas State Historical Association. Dr. Gracy's research interests include the history of archival enterprise, of archives and libraries in Texas, and of the information domain. He is the author of Archives and Manuscripts: Arrangement and Description; of Littlefield Lands: Colonization on the Texas Plains, 1912-1920; and of Moses Austin: His Life.
Dr. Gracy also is the editor of Libraries & the Cultural Record, the only journal devoted exclusively to the broad history of collections of knowledge that form the cultural record.
Degrees
B.A., 1963, and M.A., 1966, both in History from The University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., 1971, History, Texas Tech University.Courses
| Year | Semester | Course Number | Course |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Spring | INF 386 | History of Information and Society Emergence of the Information Domain |
| 2010 | Fall | INF 386C | Archives, Records, and Preservation in the Modern World |
| 2010 | Spring | INF 389S | Introduction to Archival Enterprise II |
| 2009 | Fall | INF 389R | Introduction to Archival Enterprise I |
| 2009 | Spring | INF 389S | Introduction to Archival Enterprise II |
| 2008 | Fall | INF 389R | Introduction to Archival Enterprise I |
| 2008 | Spring | INF 386 | History of Information and Society Emergence of the Information Domain |
| 2008 | Spring | INF 389S | Introduction to Archival Enterprise II |
| 2007 | Fall | INF 180J | Introduction to Information Studies |
| 2007 | Fall | INF 389R | Introduction to Archival Enterprise I |
| 2007 | Spring | INF 389N | Seminar in Archival Enterprise Archival Enterprise II |
| 2006 | Fall | INF 386 | History of Information and Society Library History in the Modern Era |
| 2006 | Fall | INF 389D | Introduction to Archival Enterprise |
| 2006 | Spring | INF 386C | Archives, Records, and Preservation in the Modern World |
| 2006 | Spring | INF 389M | Introduction to Issues in Records Information |
| 2006 | Spring | INF 389C | Archival and Records Enterprise Seminar in Forged Historical Documents |
| 2005 | Fall | INF 389D | Introduction to Archival Enterprise |
| 2005 | Fall | INF 389F | Organization of Records Information |
| 2005 | Spring | INF 386C | Archives, Records, and Preservation in the Modern World |
| 2005 | Spring | INF 389C | Archival and Records Enterprise Seminar on Forged Historical Documents |
| 2005 | Spring | INF 389C | Archival and Records Enterprise The Archival Facility |
| 2004 | Fall | INF 389D | Introduction to Archival Enterprise |
| 2004 | Fall | INF 389F | Organization of Records Information |