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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Toole, James M., 1950-
Corporate Author: Society of American Archivists
Other Authors: Cox, Richard J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago, IL : Society of American Archivists, [2006]
Series:Archival fundamentals series.
Subjects:
Archives > Administration.
Archives > History.
Archives > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Archieven.
Archiefbeheer.
Archiefwetenschap.
Archives > Gestion.
Archives > Histoire.
Archives > Guides, manuels, etc.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of 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.