عنوان

Understanding archives & manuscripts

(alk. paper)

1-931666-20-2

9781931666206

IR

397266

انگلیسی

IR

Understanding archives & manuscripts

[Book]

/ James M. O,Toole & Richard J. Cox

Chicago

: Society of American Archivists

, 2006

xvii, 237 p.

: ill.

; 23 cm

Archival fundamentals series II

انگليسي

Title: Understanding archives and manuscripts

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-228) and index.

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.

Understanding archives and manuscripts

Archives--Administration.

Archives--History.

Archives -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.

O

,Toole, James M.

, 1950-

, author

Cox

, Richard J.

Society of American Archivists.

Iran

Central Library Of Tehran University

Old cataloging

BL

1

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