No Innocent Deposits: Forming Archives by Rethinking Appraisal

Richard J. Cox

doi:10.5771/9781417503704

Summary

The public increase of interest in the past has not necessarily brought with it a greater understanding about how archives are formed. To this end, Richard Cox takes a serious look at archival repositories and collections. Cox suggests that archives do not just happen, but are consciously shaped (and sometimes distorted) by archivists, the creators of records, and other individuals and institutions. In this series of essays, Cox offers archivists rare insight into the fundamentals of appraisal, and historians and other users of archives the opportunity to appreciate the collections they all too often take for granted.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2003
Copyright Year: 2003
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8108-4896-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4175-0370-4
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 303
Product Type: Monograph

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1: Introduction: Treasures Everywhere No access Pages 1 - 18
2: The End of Collecting: Toward a New Purpose for Archival Appraisal No access Pages 19 - 46
3: The Archivist and Collecting: How Others Might See Archivists as Collectors No access Pages 47 - 86
4: The Traditional Archival and Historical Records Program in the Digital Age: A Cautionary Tale No access Pages 87 - 114
5: The Archivist and Collecting: A View from the Inside No access Pages 115 - 146
6: Metascheduling: Rethinking Archival Appraisal and Records Management Scheduling No access Pages 147 - 164
7: Evidence and Archives No access Pages 165 - 200
8: Archives and the Digital Future No access Pages 201 - 230
9: Appraisal as an Act of Memory No access Pages 231 - 258
10: Archival Appraisal Alchemy No access Pages 259 - 294
Index No access Pages 295 - 302
About the Author No access Pages 303 - 303