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The Silence of the Archive.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Principles and Practice in Records Management and Archives SeriesPublisher: London : Facet Publishing, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (216 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781783301577
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Silence of the ArchiveDDC classification:
  • 027
LOC classification:
  • CD973.A77.T466 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title page -- Contents -- Introduction to the Series by Geoffrey Yeo -- About the authors -- Foreword by Anne J. Gilliland -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Enforced silences -- Chapter 2: Inappropriate expectations -- Chapter 3: The digital -- Chapter 4: Dealing with the silence -- Chapter 5: Imagining archives -- Chapter 6: Solutions to the silence -- Chpater 7: Are things getting better or worse? -- Index.
Summary: This new book will provide a ground breaking discussion of a major but little considered issue - the silence of the archive: why archives, sometimes seen as the repositories of truth, often fail to satisfy users because they do not contain information which they expect to find.
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Intro -- Title page -- Contents -- Introduction to the Series by Geoffrey Yeo -- About the authors -- Foreword by Anne J. Gilliland -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Enforced silences -- Chapter 2: Inappropriate expectations -- Chapter 3: The digital -- Chapter 4: Dealing with the silence -- Chapter 5: Imagining archives -- Chapter 6: Solutions to the silence -- Chpater 7: Are things getting better or worse? -- Index.

This new book will provide a ground breaking discussion of a major but little considered issue - the silence of the archive: why archives, sometimes seen as the repositories of truth, often fail to satisfy users because they do not contain information which they expect to find.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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