In recent years big data initiatives, not to mention Hollywood, the video game industry and countless other popular media, have reinforced and even glamorized the public image of the archive as the ultimate repository of facts and the hope of future generations for uncovering ‘what actually happened’. The reality is, however, that for all sorts of reasons the record may not have been preserved or survived in the archive. In fact, the record may never have even existed – its creation being as imagined as is its contents. And even if it does exist, it may be silent on the salient facts, or it may obfuscate, mislead or flat out lie.
The Silence of the Archive is written by three expert and knowledgeable archivists and draws attention to the many limitations of archives and the inevitability of their having parameters.
Silences or gaps in archives range from details of individuals’ lives to records of state oppression or of intelligence operations. The book brings together ideas from a wide range of fields, including contemporary history, family history research and Shakespearian studies. It describes why these silences exist, what the impact of them is, how researchers have responded to them, and what the silence of the archive means for researchers in the digital age. It will help provide a framework and context to their activities and enable them to better evaluate archives in a post-truth society.
A newly revised edition of the 2011 Society of American Archivists' Waldo Gifford Leland Award winner.
This new and extensively revised second edition offers an international perspective on archives management, providing authoritative guidance relevant to collections-based repositories and to organizations responsible for managing their own institutional archives.
Written in clear language with lively examples, Archives: Principles and practices introduces core archival concepts, explains best-practice approaches and discusses the central activities that archivists need to know to ensure the documentary materials in their charge are cared for as effectively as possible.
Topics addressed include:
core archival principles and concepts
archival history and the evolution of archival theories
the nature and diversity of archival materials and institutions
the responsibilities and duties of the archivist
issues in the management of archival institutions
the challenges of balancing access and privacy in archival service
best practice principles and strategic approaches to central archival tasks such as acquisition, preservation, reference and access
detailed comparison of custodial, fonds-oriented approaches and post-custodial, functional approaches to arrangement and description.
Discussion of digital archives is woven throughout the book, including consideration of the changing role of the archivist in the digital age.
In recasting her book to address the impact of digital technologies on records and archives, Millar offers us an archival manual for the twenty-first century.
This book will be essential reading for archival practitioners, archival studies students and professors, librarians, museum curators, local authorities, small governments, public libraries, community museums, corporations, associations and other agencies with archival responsibility.
A newly revised edition of the 2011 Society of American Archivists' Waldo Gifford Leland Award winner.
This new and extensively revised second edition offers an international perspective on archives management, providing authoritative guidance relevant to collections-based repositories and to organizations responsible for managing their own institutional archives.
Written in clear language with lively examples, Archives: Principles and practices introduces core archival concepts, explains best-practice approaches and discusses the central activities that archivists need to know to ensure the documentary materials in their charge are cared for as effectively as possible.
Topics addressed include:
core archival principles and concepts
archival history and the evolution of archival theories
the nature and diversity of archival materials and institutions
the responsibilities and duties of the archivist
issues in the management of archival institutions
the challenges of balancing access and privacy in archival service
best practice principles and strategic approaches to central archival tasks such as acquisition, preservation, reference and access
detailed comparison of custodial, fonds-oriented approaches and post-custodial, functional approaches to arrangement and description.
Discussion of digital archives is woven throughout the book, including consideration of the changing role of the archivist in the digital age.
In recasting her book to address the impact of digital technologies on records and archives, Millar offers us an archival manual for the twenty-first century.
This book will be essential reading for archival practitioners, archival studies students and professors, librarians, museum curators, local authorities, small governments, public libraries, community museums, corporations, associations and other agencies with archival responsibility.
This book demonstrates how heritage institutions can work with community-based heritage groups to build broader, more inclusive and culturally relevant collections.
The internet as a platform for facilitating human organization without the need for organizations has, through social media, created new challenges for cultural heritage institutions. Challenges include but are not limited to: how to manage copyright, ownership, orphan works, open data access to heritage representations and artefacts, crowdsourcing, cultural heritage amateurs, information as a commodity or information as public domain, sustainable preservation, attitudes towards openness and much more.
Participatory Heritage uses a selection of international case studies to explore these issues and demonstrates that in order for personal and community-based documentation and artefacts to be preserved and included in social and collective histories, individuals and community groups need the technical and knowledge infrastructures of support that formal cultural institutions can provide. In other words, both groups need each other.
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