Currents of archival thinking
By: Terry Eastwood and Heather MacNeil, editors.
Contributors: Eastwood, Terence M.; MacNeil, Heather Marie.
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781591586562
Subjects: Archives; Archives -- Philosophy; Archivists
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Shifting currents / Heather MacNeil; title: pt. 1. Foundations; title: A contested realm : the nature of archives and the orientation of archival science / Terry Eastwood; title: Origins : evolving ideas about the principle of provenance / Jennifer Douglas; title: pt. 2. Functions; title: On or off the record? : notions of value in the archive / Ciaran B. Trace; title: Preserving records of enduring value / Michèle V. Cloonan; title: Debates about description / Geoffrey Yeo; title: Archival mediation / Wendy M. Duff; title: pt. 3. Models and metaphors; title: Life cycle and continuum : a view of recordkeeping models from the postwar era / Glenn Dingwall; title: Archives and collective memory : more than a metaphor, less than an analogy / Margaret Hedstrom; title: Archives as arsenals of accountability / Livia Iacovino; title: Reenvisioning the personal : reframing traces of individual life / Catherine Hobbs.