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Understanding archives & manuscripts

Author: James M O'Toole; Richard J Cox; Society of American Archivists.
Publisher: Chicago, IL : Society of American Archivists, ©2006.
Series: Archival fundamentals series., II
Edition/Format: Book : English
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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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