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Controlling the past : documenting society and institutions : essays in honor of Helen Willa Samuels
Title
Controlling the past : documenting society and institutions : essays in honor of Helen Willa Samuels / Terry Cook, editor.
ISBN
1931666369 (alk. paper)
9781931666367 (alk. paper)
Published
Chicago : Society of American Archivists, c2011.
Physical Description
434 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Summary
"[In this volume], twenty leading archivists honor Helen Willa Samuels ... by exploring the theme of documenting modern society and its institutions, and carefully considering the implications arising from the archivist's control over social memory ... The first nine essays explore the rich contexts in which the appraisal of potential archival sources takes place and focus on understanding and managing all documentation to select the small percentage that will survive in archives. Several chapters trace how the profession is being radically transformed in the digital age with topics such as making a case for electronic records management, documenting appraisal as a societal-archival process, and challenging stereotypes about corporate archives"--P. [4] of cover.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 03, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Documenting society and institutions : the influence of Helen Willa Samuels. Documenting society. Documenting appraisal as a societal-archival process : theory, practice, and ethics in the wake of Helen Willa Samuels
Traveling in a Hellenic world : an odyssey from oral history and documentation strategy to continuing issues and integrated recordkeeping
The archival garden : photographic plantings, interpretive choices, and alternative narratives
The complication of color in an academic archive
Technology's promise, the copying of records, and the archivist's challenge : a case study in documentation rhetoric
Brown shoes in a world of tuxedos : corporate archives and the archival profession
A cautionary tale about laws, records, and technology : making a case for electronic records management
Keeping records in changing organizations
The tower, the cloud, and posterity : documenting in a digital world
Representing archives : being archival. Structural formalisms in documentation : reflecting function and supporting meaning
Who represents the past? Archives, records, and the social web
Designs for records and recordkeeping : visual presentation in diplomatics, the record continuum, and documentation strategy
The evolution of archival practice and the history-archival divide
The archivist's perspective : the history of an idea
Ethics and the archive : "an incessant movement of recontextualisation"
How archivists "control the past"
Reflections. Making better professionals : reflections on selected writings of Helen Willa Samuels
Learnings : weaving it all together.
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