The Silence of the Archive (eBook)

David Thomas, Simon Fowler, Valerie Johnson (Autoren)

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2017
224 Seiten
Facet Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78330-157-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

David Thomas is a Visiting Professor at the University of Northumbria. Previously, he worked at the National Archives where he was Director of Technology and was responsible for digital preservation and for providing access to digital material. Simon Fowler is an Associate Teaching Fellow at the University of Dundee where he teaches a course on military archives. Previously he worked at The National Archives for nearly thirty years. Dr Valerie Johnson is Interim Director of Research and Collections at The National Archives. She has worked as an archivist and a historian in the academic, corporate and public sectors. Anne J Gilliland is Professor, Department of Information Studies, Director, Center for Information as Evidence, University of California, US. The series editor: Geoffrey Yeo is honorary researcher in archives and records management at University College London (UCL), London.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.5.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Principles and Practice in Records Management and Archives
• Reihe/Serie: Principles and Practice in Records Management and Archives
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• Schlagworte: Archival science • archival silence • archive appraisal • archive secrecy • destruction of records • fiction and archives • Foi • Freedom of Information • gaps in archives • Oral History • recordkeeping • records as evidence
• ISBN-10: 1-78330-157-0 / 1783301570
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78330-157-7 / 9781783301577