Title & Author:

Controlling the past : documenting society and institutions : essays in honor of Helen Willa Samuels / Terry Cook, editor.

Publication:

Chicago : Society of American Archivists, [2011]
©2011

Description:

434 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Documenting society and institutions : the influence of Helen Willa Samuels / Terry Cook -- Documenting society. Documenting appraisal as a societal-archival process : theory, practice, and ethics in the wake of Helen Willa Samuels / Tom Nesmith ; Traveling in a Hellenic world : an odyssey from oral history and documentation strategy to continuing issues and integrated recordkeeping / Gregory Sanford ; The archival garden : photographic plantings, interpretive choices, and alternative narratives / Joan M. Schwartz ; The complication of color in an academic archive / Nancy Bartlett ; Technology's promise, the copying of records, and the archivist's challenge : a case study in documentation rhetoric / Richard J. Cox ; Brown shoes in a world of tuxedos : corporate archives and the archival profession / Bruce H. Bruemmer ; A cautionary tale about laws, records, and technology : making a case for electronic records management / Robert Horton ; Keeping records in changing organizations / Rick Barry ; The tower, the cloud, and posterity : documenting in a digital world / Richard N. Katz, Paul B. Gandel -- Representing archives/being archival. Structural formalisms in documentation : reflecting function and supporting meaning / David Bearman ; Who represents the past? Archives, records, and the social web / Elizabeth Yakel ; Designs for records and recordkeeping : visual presentation in diplomatics, the record continuum, and documentation strategy / Brien Brothman ; The evolution of archival practice and the history-archival divide / Francis X. Blouin Jr. ; The archivist's perspective : the history of an idea / James M. O'Toole ; Ethics and the archive : "an incessant movement of recontextualisation" / Verne Harris ; How archivists "control the past" / Randall C. Jimerson -- Reflections. Making better professionals : reflections on selected writings of Helen Willa Samuels / Elisabeth Kaplan ; Learnings : weaving it all together / Helen Willa Samuels.

Summary:

"[In this volume], twenty leading archivists honor Helen Willa Samuels ... by exploring the theme of documenting modern society and its institutions, and carefully considering the implications arising from the archivist's control over social memory ... The first nine essays explore the rich contexts in which the appraisal of potential archival sources takes place and focus on understanding and managing all documentation to select the small percentage that will survive in archives. Several chapters trace how the profession is being radically transformed in the digital age with topics such as making a case for electronic records management, documenting appraisal as a societal-archival process, and challenging stereotypes about corporate archives".-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

(pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781931666369
1931666369 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9781931666367 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

Subject:

Archives Administration.
Archivists.
Archives Philosophy.
Records Management.
Archival materials Management.
Archives Administration Technological innovations.
Archives Gestion.
Archivistes.
Archives Philosophie.
Documents d'archives Gestion.
Archives Gestion Innovations.
archivists.
Archivkunde
Digitalisierung

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Festschriften.
Mélanges (Recueils)

Added entries:

Cook, Terry, 1947- editor.
Samuels, Helen Willa, honouree.
Society of American Archivists, issuing body.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 271158
Call No.: CD972 .C67 2011
Status: Available