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Better off forgetting? : essays on archives, public policy, and collective memory
Title
Better off forgetting? : essays on archives, public policy, and collective memory / edited by Cheryl Avery and Mona Holmlund.
ISBN
9781442641679 (bound)
1442641673 (bound)
9781442610804 (pbk.)
1442610808 (pbk.)
Published
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2010.
Physical Description
xvii, 242 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary
"Throughout Canada, provincial, federal, and municipal archives exist to house the records we produce. Some conceive of these institutions as old and staid, suggesting that archives are somehow trapped in the past. But archives are more than resources for professional scholars and interested individuals. With an increasing emphasis on transparency in government and public institutions, archives have become essential tools for accountability.
Better Off Forgetting? offers a reappraisal of archives and a look at the challenges they face in a time when issues of freedom of information, privacy, technology, and digitization are increasingly important. The contributors argue that archives are essential to contemporary debates about public policy and make a case for more status, funding, and influence within public bureaucracies. While stimulating debate about our rapidly changing information environment, Better Off Forgetting? focuses on the continuing role of archives in gathering and preserving our collective memory."--pub. desc.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 02, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Pennies from Heaven: The History of Public Funding for Canadian Archives / Marion Beyea
Lady Sings the Blues: The Public Funding of Archives, Libraries, and Museums in Canada / Shelley Sweeney
Access-to-Information Legislation: A Critical Analysis / Jo-Ann Munn Gafuik
Privacy: A Look at the Disenfranchized / Doug Surtees
The Laurier Promise: Securing Public Access to Historic Census Materials in Canada / Terry Cook and Bill Waiser
Search vs. Research: Full-Text Repositories, Granularity, and the Concept of 'Source' in the Digital Environment / Robert Cole and Chris Hackett
Preserving Digital History: Costs and Consequences / Yvette Hackett
Archives, Democratic Accountability, and Truth / Terry Eastwood
Archivists and Public Affairs: Towards a New Archival Public Programming / Tom Nesmith
Reconciliation in Regions Affected by Armed Conflict: The Role of Archives / Tom Adami and Martha Hunt
Bridging Us to Us: An Argument for the Importance of Archivists in Current Politics and Journalism / Robert Steiner
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