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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
James M O'Toole; Richard J Cox; Society of American Archivists. |
| ISBN: | 1931666202 9781931666206 |
| OCLC Number: | 70054151 |
| Description: | xvii, 237 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Recording, keeping, and using information -- The oral world -- The rise and spread of literacy -- Reasons for recording information -- The impulse to save -- The impulse to destroy -- The technology of record making -- Characteristics of recorded information in the modern age -- The usefulness of archives -- The history of archives and the archives profession -- Old world antecedents -- American origins: the two traditions -- Emergence of the archival profession -- The crucial decade: the 1930s -- Diversification and development -- Consolidation of professional identity -- Current issues -- The archivist's perspective: knowledge and values -- Knowledge -- Values -- The archivist's task: responsibilities and duties -- Planning -- Saving and acquiring archival records -- Organizing archival records -- Making archival records available -- Archivists and the challenges of new worlds -- Postmodernism -- Internet time -- Ethics and security -- Symbolism and technology -- Advocacy and the archival mission -- Recordkeeping in the digital era -- Professionalism. |
| Series Title: | Archival fundamentals series., II |
| Other Titles: | Understanding archives and manuscripts |
| Responsibility: | James M. O'Toole & Richard J. Cox. |
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