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This title is ideal for professional archivists, records managers, postgraduate and undergraduate students in history, archives, librarianship, and information studies, as well as academics and other users of archives seeking a deeper understanding of archival limitations in a digital, post-truth world.
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.
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In recent years, big data initiatives, not to mention Hollywood, the video game industry and countless other popular media, have reinforced and even glamourised the public image of the archive as the ultimate repository of facts and the hope of future generations for uncovering ‘what actually happened’. The reality is, however, that for all sorts of reasons, the record may not have been preserved or survived in the archive. In fact, the record may never have even existed – its creation being as imagined as is its contents. And even if it does exist, it may be silent on the salient facts, or it may obfuscate, mislead or flat out lie.
The Silence of the Archive is written by three expert and knowledgeable archivists and draws attention to the many limitations of archives and the inevitability of their having parameters.
Silences or gaps in archives range from details of individuals’ lives to records of state oppression or of intelligence operations. The book brings together ideas from a wide range of fields, including contemporary history, family history research and Shakespearian studies. It describes why these silences exist, what the impact of them is, how researchers have responded to them, and what the silence of the archive means for researchers in the digital age. It will help provide a framework and context to their activities and enable them to better evaluate archives in a post-truth society.
This book includes discussion of:
- enforced silences
- expectations and when silence means silence
- digital preservation, authenticity and the future
- dealing with the silence
- possible solutions; challenging silence and acceptance
- the meaning of the silences: are things getting better or worse?
- user satisfaction and audience development
This book will make compelling reading for professional archivists, records managers and records creators, postgraduate and undergraduate students of history, archives, librarianship and information studies, as well as academics and other users of archives.
Series: Principles and Practice in Records Management and Archives
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This new and extensively revised second edition offers an international perspective on archives management, providing authoritative guidance relevant to collections-based repositories and to organisations responsible for managing their own institutional archives. 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...Paperback$13600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Records, Information and Data
This dynamic book considers whether and how the management of records (and archives) differs from the management of information (and data). Can archives and records management still make a distinctive contribution in the 21st century, or are they now being dissolved into a wider world of information governance? What should be our conceptual understanding of records in the digital era?...Paperback$17700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Silence of the Archive
In recent years, big data initiatives, not to mention Hollywood, the video game industry and countless other popular media, have reinforced and even glamourised the public image of the archive as the ultimate repository of facts and the hope of future generations for uncovering ‘what actually happened’. The reality is, however, that for all sorts of reasons, the record may...Paperback$16500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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Experts recommend this book for archivists, records managers, and researchers. Peter Webster from the LSE Review of Books praises its timely importance, while Jim Frutchey at Booklist Online highlights its engaging anecdotes and thoughtful discussion of archival silences, particularly in a British context. Together, the authors offer insightful analysis and practical approaches to understanding and addressing the complexities of incomplete archives.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781783301553
Publisher: Facet Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 11 May 2017
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Facet Publishing
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 13.0mm
Width: 158.0mm
Height: 235.0mm
Weight: 158g
Pages: 224
About the Author
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.
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