Closing an era
Subtitle: historical perspectives on modern archives and records management
By: Richard J. Cox.
Series: New directions in information management,; no. 35
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Archives -- United States -- Administration -- History.; Records -- United states -- Management -- History.; Archivists -- United States -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Mythic Modem Origins and the History of Records Management; title: 2. The Birth of Records Management: The Ancients to the Dawn of; title: the Industrial Age; title: 3. The Birth of the Modem Records Regime and Profession; title: 4. Building a National System of Records Administration; title: 5. Shifting Strategies in Appraising, Scheduling, and Maintaining; title: Records; title: 6. Archives, Records, and Memory; title: 7. Educating Records Professionals in a Hostile Age; title: 8. Archives, Documentary Editing, and the Quarrel about; title: Preserving Our Documentary Heritage; title: 9 History's Future: American Archivists, Cyberculture, and Stasis; title: Index .