'In Personal Archives and a New Archival Calling: Readings, Reflections and Ruminations, Richard J. Cox argues that personal archives might be assuming a new importance in society. As the technical means for creating, maintaining, and using documents are improving and becoming more cost-effective, individuals and families are seeking to preserve their old documents, especially traditional paper forms, as a connection to a past that may seem to be in risk of being swallowed up in the immense digital gadgetry in our Internet Age. There is a reversal to other technologies as well, such as leather bound journals and fountain pens, by some individuals resisting or protesting the increasingly digital world they reside in. Behind these very different approaches are similar impulses, and, these divergent paths raise identical questions about the role and purpose of traditional archives dating back two centuries and more. Personal recordkeeping raises a remarkable array of issues and concerns about records and their preservation, public or collective memory, the mission of professional records managers and archivists, the nature of the role of the institutional archives, and the function of the individual citizen as their own archivist.' - from publisher's website.
Includes a list of works cited in the book.
Onsite
English
2008
418
9780980200478
2
monograph
Introduction
Chapter One: Posting Notes and, Then, Saving Them
Chapter Two: The Romance of the Document
Chapter Three: Information Documents - How People and Organisations Acquire Information
Chapter Four: A 'Therapeutic Function' - Personal Recordkeeping
Chapter Five: Human Impulses and Personal Archives
Chapter Six: Traces of Ourselves - More Thoughts on Personal Reocrdkeeping and the Roles of the Archivist
Chapter Seven: Electronic Mail and Personal Recordkeeping
Chapter Eight: The Web of Records - The World Wide Web, the Records Professions, and Personal Archiving
Conclusion: A New Kind of Archival Future?
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