Where is Schellenberg?
Schellenberg
Schellenberg is a municipality in the lowland area of Liechtenstein, on the banks of the Rhine. , it has a population of 1,090 and covers an area of .
T. R. Schellenberg
Schellenberg had a long career with the federal government working mostly in the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). In 1935, he gained his first position within NARA when he was appointed as a Deputy Examiner, part of a group of academics who were tasked with examining the records of executive agencies in Washington D.C. He was appointed chief of the Division of Agriculture Department Archives in 1938. It was in this position that he published his first paper in 1939, "European Archival Practices in Arranging Records", which laid the groundwork for his life’s work. In it, he observed that European methods only applied to U.S. records management in a limited way. Americans were creating documents at an unprecedented rate, and European archival practices did not adequately respond to the changing needs of American records management. Experiencing this issue firsthand during his work at NARA, Schellenberg's theory of the archives came from the practical need to adapt European archival practices to working with the massive scale of the federal records climate.