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Informationen zum Autor Jennie Hill BA(Hons) MA MSc(Econ) is a Lecturer in Archives and Records Management at the Department of Information Studies, Aberystwyth University. She has previously worked in a wide range of local and national archive services. "This book could benefit any professional in records and information management, knowledge or library management, history, or research. It provides an intense and thought-provoking mix of theory, practice, and philosophy." - Information Management Zusammenfassung With increasing interest from outside of the profession, the idea of archives as the static, impartial carriers of truth and the archivist as a guardian of records has been questioned: how can society take greater control over its own written memory? This book offers a clearly organized approach to developments in archives and record keeping. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: seeing the future of archives and recordkeeping PART 1: DEFINING ARCHIVES 1. Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Situating the archive and archivists - Victoria Lane and Jennie Hill 2. Encounters with the self: archives and research - Sue Breakell 3. Strangely unfamiliar: ideas of the archive from outside the discipline - Alexandrina Buchanan PART 2: SHAPING A DISCIPLINE 4. Structural and formal analysis: the contribution of diplomatics to archival appraisal in the digital environment - Luciana Duranti 5. Archivistics: science or art? - Eric Ketelaar PART 3: ARCHIVE 2.0: ARCHIVES IN SOCIETY 6. Archons, aliens and angels: power and politics in the archive - Verne Harris 7. Interactivity, flexibility and transparency: social media and Archives 2.0 - Kate Theimer 8. The impact of independent and community archives on professional archival thinking and practice - Andrew Flinn PART 4: ARCHIVES IN THE INFORMATION AGE: IS THERE STILL A ROLE FOR THE ARCHIVIST? 9. The postcustodial archive - Adrian Cunningham 10. Information management, records management, knowledge management: the place of archives in a digital age - Nicole Convery 11. Appraisal and the future of archives in the digital era - Richard J Cox ...
