The silence of the archive [electronic resource] / David Thomas, Simon Fowler and Valerie Johnson.

By:

Thomas, David, 1950- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Principles and practice in records management and archivesPublisher: London : Facet Publishing, 2017Description: 1 online resourceISBN:

9781783301577
1783301570

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

025.2814 23

LOC classification:

CD973.A37 T46 2017eb

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Title page; Contents; Introduction to the Series by Geoffrey Yeo; About the authors; Foreword by Anne J. Gilliland; Introduction ; Chapter 1: Enforced silences; Chapter 2: Inappropriate expectations; Chapter 3: The digital; Chapter 4: Dealing with the silence; Chapter 5: Imagining archives; Chapter 6: Solutions to the silence; Chpater 7: Are things getting better or worse?; Index

Summary: 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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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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