No innocent deposits
Subtitle: forming archives by rethinking appraisal
By: Richard J. Cox.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Appraisal of archival materials
Description: "No Innocent Deposits, which borrows its title from a description of archives by an oral historian, suggests that archives do not just happen but are consciously shaped (and sometimes distorted) by archivists, the creators of records, and other individuals and institutions. In this series of essays, Cox offers archivists rare insight into the fundamentals of appraisal and provides historians and other users of archives with the opportunity to appreciate the collections they all too often take for granted."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Treasures everywhere; title: The end of collecting : towards a new purpose for archival appraisal; title: The archivist and collecting : how others might see archivists as collectors; title: The traditional archival and historical records program in the digital age : a cautionary tale; title: The archivist and collecting : a view from the inside; title: Metascheduling : rethinking archival appraisal and records management scheduling; title: Evidence and archives; title: Archives and the digital future; title: Appraisal as an act of memory; title: Archival appraisal alchemy.