Written in clear language with lively examples, Archives: Principles and Practices introduces core archival concepts, explains best-practice approaches, and discusses the central activities that archivists need to know to ensure the documentary materials in their charge are cared for as effectively as possible. Discussion of digital archives is woven throughout the book, including consideration of the changing role of the archivist in the digital age. In recasting her book to address the impact of digital technologies on records and archives, Millar offers us an archival manual for the twenty-first century.
Key Features
- Core archival principles and concepts
- Archival history and the evolution of archival theories
- The nature and diversity of archival materials and institutions
- Responsibilities and duties of the archivist
- Issues in the management of archival institutions
- Challenges of balancing access and privacy in archival service
- Best practice principles and strategic approaches to central archival tasks such as acquisition, preservation, reference, and access
- Detailed comparison of custodial, fonds-oriented approaches and post-custodial, functional approaches to arrangement and description
- Essential reading for archival practitioners, archival studies students and professors, librarians, museum curators, local authorities, small governments, public libraries, community museums, corporations, associations, and other agencies with archival responsibility
Additional Information
This book will be essential reading for archival practitioners, archival studies students and professors, librarians, museum curators, local authorities, small governments, public libraries, community museums, corporations, associations, and other agencies with archival responsibility.
