Closing an Era : Historical Perspectives on Modern Archives and Records Management.

Cover -- Closing an Era -- Contents -- Preface -- NOTES -- 1 Mythic Modern Origins and the History of Records Management -- INTRODUCTION -- MYTHIC ORIGINS -- THE FAILURE OF THE RECORDS PROFESSIONS IN UNDERSTANDING THE PAST -- PROMISING DEVELOPMENTS FOR HISTORICAL RESEARCH WITHIN ARCHIVY -- GLIMPSES FROM OUTSIDE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 2 The Birth of Records Management: The Ancients to the Dawn of the Industrial Age -- ANCIENT RECORDKEEPING -- MEDIEVAL RECORDKEEPING -- RECORDKEEPING IN THE PRE-INDUSTRIAL OFFICE -- NOTES -- 3 The Birth of the Modern Records Regime and Profession -- MECHANIZATION OF THE OFFICE -- THE REVOLT AGAINST THE PAPER RECORD -- RECORDS, INFORMATION, OR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT -- RE-DEFINING ELECTRONIC RECORDS MANAGEMENT -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 4 Building a National System of Records Administration -- NOTES -- 5 Shifting Strategies in Appraising, Scheduling, and Maintaining Records -- THE MEANING OF RECORDS MAINTENANCE -- THE STRANGE, INTERTWINED HISTORIES OF ARCHIVAL APPRAISAL AND RECORDS MANAGEMENT SCHEDULING -- ARCHIVAL ANCHORITES: BUILDING PUBLIC MEMORY IN THE ERA OF THE CULTURE WARS -- DECLARATIONS, INDEPENDENCE, AND TEXT IN THE INFORMATION AGE -- NOTES -- 6 Archives, Records, and Memory -- THE CONCEPT OF PUBLIC MEMORY AND ITS IMPACT ON RECORDS MANAGEMENT -- CAUGHT IN A WEB: THE INTERNET, MEMORY, AND RECORDS -- TIME, THE WEB, AND RECORDS -- PLACE, THE WEB, AND ARCHIVES -- MEMORY, THE WEB, AND ARCHIVES -- SO WHAT DO ARCHIVISTS AND RECORDS MANAGERS DO? -- NOTES -- 7 Educating Records Professionals in a Hostile Age -- THE HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICAN ARCHIVAL EDUCATION -- FOCUSING ON RECORDS AND RECORDKEEPING SYSTEMS -- THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT EDUCATION OF RECORDS PROFESSIONALS -- ANOTHER VIEW: THE CONTINUING CHALLENGE OF THE PRACTICUM IN GRADUATE EDUCATION IN THE RECORDS PROFESSIONS -- NOTES.

8 Archives, Documentary Editing, and the Quarrel about Preserving Our Documentary Heritage -- INTRODUCTION -- HISTORICAL CONTEXT 1: DOCUMENTARY EDITING AND THE NHPRC -- HISTORICAL CONTEXT 2: ARCHIVISTS AND HISTORIANS -- HISTORICAL CONTEXT 3: CHANGING RECORDKEEPING SYSTEMS AND ACCESS -- THE REAL ISSUE: THE IMPORTANCE OF RECORDS -- NOTES -- 9 History's Future: American Archivists, Cyberculture, and Stasis -- INTRODUCTION: THE CULTURES OF RECORDS PROFESSIONALS IN THE INFORMATION AGE -- THE PERSISTENT AND CURRENT ARCHIVAL CULTURE -- CYBERCULTURE -- RE-EXAMINING ARCHIVAL CULTURE -- CONCLUSIONS: RESURRECTING AN OLD CULTURE -- NOTES -- Index -- About the Author.

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