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Closing an Era Historical Perspectives on Modern Archives and Records Management
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Richard J. Cox
ISBN: 0-313-31331-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31331-8
272 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 9/30/2000
List Price: $131.95 (UK Sterling Price: £91.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: The importance of records in modern society is explored by re-examining some of the historical antecedents for critical functions in the modern records professions. The motivation for writing this book comes from a conviction of the importance of records and records professionals in organizations and society, as well as the need to possess a stronger sense of the events, trends, people, debates, and controversies producing the modern records professions.

Archivists and records managers have tended to discount the importance of their historical antecedents, ignoring the fact that many of the current debates and issues before the profession are not new but embedded in the historical evolution of the records professions. Re-examining some of the historical origins helps records professionals to re-examine their mission to manage records for the benefit of organizations and of all of society. Such re-evaluation also helps to remind records professionals and others that the concerns generated by new electronic recordkeeping technologies are not new at all but built deep within the fabric of traditional records creation and administration.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
    Mythic Modern Origins and the History of Records Management
    The Birth of Records Management: The Ancients to the Dawn of the Industrial Age
    The Birth of the Modern Records Regime and Profession
    Building a National System of Records Administration
    Shifting Strategies in Appraising, Scheduling, and Maintaining Records
    Archives, Records, and Memory
    Educating Records Professionals in a Hostile Age
    Archives, Documentary Editing, and the Quarrel about Preserving Our Documentary Heritage
    History's Future: American Archivists, Cyberculture, and Stasis
    Index
About the Author: RICHARD J. COX is Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Information Science./e
LCC Class: 25
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