Conceptualizing 21st-Century Archives Anne J. Gilliland

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilliland, Anne J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archives--Technological innovations--History.

Archives.

Archives--Automation--History.

Archives--Automation.

Physical Description:

xii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Conceptualizing twenty-first century archives

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Society of American Archivists, [2014]

Summary:

Explores the shifts and divergences in archival discourse that technological developments have necessitated, facilitated, or inspired. Gilliland addresses the lessons the archival and recordkeeping fields can learn from their evolution about ideas tried and abandoned; which ideas are truly new, and which continue to hold good, regardless of technological shifts; and the ways in which archivists need to expand their thinking and practices to fulfill their global and local--"glocal"--Roles. By understanding how archival practices and thinking were challenged or how archivists responded at different points over the past century, the reader can begin to discern how and why ideas rise, fall, and resurge. Gilliland traces the development of descriptive systems, the creation and management of computer-generated records, and the curation of digital materials. With each chapter, she addresses either the historical development or the current state of an area within archival science that information and communications technology have significantly affected to ultimately construct a picture of how archives arrived in the 21st century and to suggest where they might be going in the foreseeable future. --From publisher description.

Contents:

Introduction

Reframing the archive in a digital age : balancing continuity with innovation and responsibility with responsibilities

The quest to integrate the world's knowledge : American archival engagement with the documentation movement, 1900-1950

Standardizing and automating American archival description and access

Archival description and descriptive metadata in a networked world

Early analog computing and recordkeeping and the transition to digital

Research in electronic records management

Emergent and related areas of research

Recordkeeping models

Stewarding the digital: digital repositories, preservation, and curation conclusion : the archival paradigm in the postphysical world.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-294) and index.

ISBN:

9781931666688

1931666687

OCLC:

864709699