Closing an era : historical perspectives on modern archives and records management /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cox, Richard J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0313001456
9780313001451
ISSN:0887-3844 ;
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Mythic modem 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 modem 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.