Archival Futures

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Archival Futures gathers insights from international experts to explore the rapidly evolving archival landscape and envision its future. Addressing how digital advancements have transformed record creation, usage, storage, and communication, the book examines the challenges archivists face, including expanding skills and restricted resources. It encourages reflection on the archivist's purpose and role while discussing the impact of societal changes on access, authenticity, and information exchange. Contributions cover topics such as appraisal, description, the evolving archive concept, and the profession’s future amidst technological and cultural shifts.
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Ideal for students, academics, and practitioners in archival science, records management, and library and information science seeking to understand contemporary challenges and future directions in archives.

This book draws on the contributions of a range of international experts to consider the current archival landscape and imagine the archive of the future.

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This book draws on the contributions of a range of international experts to consider the current archival landscape and imagine the archive of the future. Firmly rooted in current professional debate and scholarship, Archival Futures offers thought-provoking and accessible chapters that aim to challenge and inspire archivists globally and to encourage debate about their futures.

It is widely acknowledged that the archive profession/discipline is facing a time of change. The digital world has presented changes in how records are created, used, stored, and communicated. At the same time, there is increased public debate over issues such as ownership of and access to information and its authenticity and reliability in a networked and interconnected world. On a practical level, archivists are being asked to do more, to have a greater range of skills, often with increasingly restricted resources while competing with others to maintain their role as experts in ever-changing environments.

Exploring the potential impact of these changes is timely. Such reflections will provide the opportunity to consider the archivists’ purpose and role, discuss the practical impact of change on skills and functions, and articulate what can be contributed to a mid-21st century world.

The contributors, Kate Theimer, Luciana Duranti, Victoria Lemieux, Geoffrey Yeo, Jenny Bunn, Sonia Ranade, Barbara Reed, Gillian Oliver, Frank Upward, Joanne Evans, Michael Moss, David Thomas, and Craig Gauld cover:

the role of archives in relation to individuals, organisations, communities, and society
how appraisal, arrangement, description, and access might be affected in the future
the impact of changing societal expectations in terms of access to information, how information is exchanged, and how things are recorded and remembered
the place of traditional archives and what ‘the archive’ is or might become
competition or opportunity offered by other information, cultural, or IT-related professions and the future role of the archive profession
truth and post-truth: archives as authentic and reliable evidence

This book will appeal to an international audience of students, academics, and practitioners in archival science, records management, and library and information science.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781783302185

Publisher: Facet Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 21 August 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Facet Publishing

Contributors:

Edited by Caroline Brown

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 224

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Caroline Brown is the Programme Leader and Honorary Lecturer for the archives programmes at the Centre for Archive and Information Studies, University of Dundee, where she is also Deputy Archivist. She is a Chair of Archives and Records Association (UK & Ireland’s) Conference Committee, sits on its Professional Development Committee, having formerly served as the Chair of the Education, Training and Development Committee, and is a member of the Executive Committee for ARA Scotland. She is a sits on the Section Bureau of the International Council on Archives Section on Archival Education and is active in ICA/SUV . She is an Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College and Panel Member and has written and spoken on a range of archival and recordkeeping issues. She is the editor of Archives and Recordkeeping: Theory into practice (Facet, 2013).