Archival appraisal
| Titel: | Archival appraisal : theory and practice / Barbara Craig |
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| Veröffentlicht: | München : Saur, 2004 |
| Umfang: | X, 224 S. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 3598115385 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- Acknowledgements
- p. ix
- Introduction
- p. 1
- Chapter 1
- An overview of appraisal: What is it? Who does it? Why is it done?
- p. 7
- 1.1
- Appraisal--choosing information to keep
- p. 7
- 1.2
- Reasons for choice in personal appraisal
- p. 10
- 1.3
- Physical person and corporate person
- p. 12
- 1.4
- Perspectives of the organization or group
- p. 12
- 1.5
- Why appraise?
- p. 14
- 1.6
- What factors shape appraisal in organizations?
- p. 15
- 1.7
- Information systems and records systems
- p. 17
- 1.8
- Professionals who need to be knowledgeable about appraisal
- p. 18
- Chapter 2
- Appraisal and archival appraisal in modern organizations--purpose, participants, roles and responsibilities
- p. 23
- 2.1
- Managing records in an organization
- p. 23
- 2.2
- Appraisal as an organizing concept for general management
- p. 28
- 2.3
- Perspective on appraisal in an organization: the importance of points of view
- p. 30
- 2.4
- Role of the archivist in records appraisal in a company or other types of organization
- p. 32
- 2.5
- Archival programmes and institutions in their unique role
- p. 34
- 2.6
- Appraisal from the perspective of archival repositories
- p. 35
- 2.7
- Appraisal as a function in an archive programme or institution
- p. 37
- Chapter 3
- The many views on appraisal in archive programmes
- p. 41
- 3.1
- Appraisal in the economy of archives
- p. 41
- 3.2
- Orienting appraisal to its role in an archive programme
- p. 42
- 3.3
- The special relation of appraisal to acquisitions
- p. 44
- 3.4
- Acquisition in archives programmes and institutions--dependence and independence
- p. 47
- 3.5
- Passive versus active implementation of acquisition mandates
- p. 48
- 3.6
- Relationship to source affects appraisal
- p. 49
- 3.7
- Coherent schemes to relate acquisition to appraisal
- p. 51
- 3.8
- Appraisal in an electronic environment
- p. 54
- 3.9
- Appraisal as test
- p. 55
- Chapter 4
- Archival appraisal briefly reviewed in historical context
- p. 59
- 4.1
- Appraisal in modern times
- p. 60
- 4.2
- The archivist as advisor and preserver
- p. 61
- 4.3
- Registries, decentralized records keeping and bureaucracies
- p. 63
- 4.4
- The independent role of the archives
- p. 65
- 4.5
- Archives as a reflection of society
- p. 67
- 4.6
- Appraisal as a key archival activity, its links to acquisition, and the emergence of functional analysis and memory
- p. 70
- 4.7
- Electronic records revitalize interest in appraisal
- p. 74
- Chapter 5
- Practicing appraisal--common grounds and common problems
- p. 81
- 5.1
- Agreements about appraisal
- p. 81
- 5.2
- Important to develop and then articulate a theory of appraisal
- p. 82
- 5.3
- A systematic, archive-directed appraisal is favoured as a strategy
- p. 86
- 5.4
- Tools should be used and developed further as needed
- p. 92
- 5.5
- Appraisal based solely on locating values in specific records is largely unworkable
- p. 94
- 5.6
- Appraisal shaped by a group may better reflect values and support more rational, co-operative acquisitions
- p. 96
- 5.7
- Re-appraisal, retro-appraisal, the idea of continuing appraisal, and collection assessment/self-knowledge
- p. 98
- 5.8
- Locating appraisal in the contexts of situation--the constraints on an ideal
- p. 99
- 5.9
- The archivist's internal context of appraisal work
- p. 103
- 5.10
- The "situateness" of appraisal
- p. 106
- Chapter 6
- Architecture of responsible appraisal--a foundation and a framework
- p. 111
- 6.1
- Our knowledge of appraisal
- p. 111
- 6.2
- The components of an appraisal architecture sketched
- p. 115
- 6.3
- Procedures express professional competence and obligations
- p. 121
- 6.4
- Benefits of procedure
- p. 122
- 6.5
- Choosing and accounting for choices
- p. 126
- Chapter 7
- A brief general summary
- p. 129
- 7.1
- Living with ambiguity and qualitative judgements
- p. 129
- 7.2
- The common ground upon which appraisal rests--records and human actions
- p. 134
- An introductory study guide
- p. 139
- Appendixes
- p. 161
- Appendix 1
- Some definitions with explanations
- p. 161
- Appendix 2
- Archival appraisal and the preservation of audio-visual records at Concordia University Archives, Montreal, Canada
- p. 165
- Illustration A
- Selection for reformatting
- p. 182
- Illustration B
- Sources of information
- p. 184
- Appendix 3
- CCA Acquisitions Planning Process (CCA Building a National Acquisition Strategy (1995) Adapted with modifications from James Lambert and Louis Cote "Les outils de travail en archivistique: la politique d'acquisition: pourquoi, comment, criteres et examples" Archives 23/3 (Winter 1992): 7)
- p. 187
- Appendix 4
- Mandate of City of Toronto Archives. City of Toronto Bylaw No. 458-1999 "To authorize the acquisition of non-government records and collections of documents of historical value or interest for the City of Toronto Archives"
- p. 189
- Appendix 5
- Acquisition policy and procedures, appraisal criteria, and glossary of terms for the City of Toronto Archives
- p. 193
- Appendix 6
- Appraisal report form: City of Toronto Archives
- p. 213
- Index
- p. 219