Archives and societal provenance

• A prologue to the afterlife
• p. xi

• Acknowledgements
• p. xxi

• About the author
• p. xxiii

• 1
• Introduction: societal provenance
• p. 1

• Terroir, culture and the individual
• p. 2

• The aura of societal provenance
• p. 3

• Australia and the Australian people
• p. 4

• Other terminology
• p. 5

• Applying societal provenance
• p. 7

• Notes
• p. 8

• Part 1
• History
• p. 13

• 2
• Themes in Australian recordkeeping, 1788-2010
• p. 15

• British recordkeeping legacy
• p. 16

• The governing machinery
• p. 19

• Immigrant nation
• p. 23

• The ordinary Australian: free immigrants and soldiers
• p. 25

• Conclusion
• p. 28

• Notes
• p. 29

• 3
• Schellenberg In Australia: meaning and precedent
• p. 35

• Assessing Schellenberg's visit
• p. 37

• Impact on the Paton Inquiry, and on Schellenberg
• p. 39

• Political use
• p. 40

• Cultural cringe
• p. 43

• Impact of later visitors
• p. 45

• Notes
• p. 47

• 4
• Archives: an indispensable resource for Australian historians?
• p. 51

• The three-stage discovery model
• p. 52

• Just how important are archives?
• p. 54

• The Australian archives-history nexus
• p. 56

• In summary
• p. 58

• Notes
• p. 59

• 5
• The file on H
• p. 63

• Part 2
• Institutions
• p. 83

• 6
• Libraries and archives: from subordination to partnership
• p. 85

• The setting - the 1950s
• p. 86

• Schellenberg and the Paton Inquiry
• p. 87

• Librarians' guest, archivists' hope
• p. 88

• National Library Inquiry Committee
• p. 90

• inquiry membership
• p. 91

• The inquiry supports separation
• p. 93

• The arguments
• p. 93

• Other later developments
• p. 95

• Notes
• p. 99

• 7
• Making sense of prime ministerial libraries
• p. 103

• Meanings
• p. 105

• Benefits
• p. 108

• Challenges
• p. 111

• Conclusion
• p. 113

• Notes
• p. 116

• 8
• War, sacred archiving and C.E.W. Bean
• p. 119

• The setting
• p. 121

• Archives
• p. 123

• What it all meant
• p. 125

• Notes
• p. 129

• Part 3
• Formation
• p. 133

• 9
• Saving the statistics, destroying the census
• p. 135

• Conducting the census
• p. 137

• Confidentiality
• p. 138

• The current debate
• p. 139

• Supporting destruction
• p. 141

• The case for retention
• p. 143

• Claim and counter-claim
• p. 144

• The independent inquiry
• p. 145

• Reflections
• p. 147

• Notes
• p. 148

• 10
• Documenting Australian business: invisible hand or centrally planned?
• p. 151

• Handicaps and solutions
• p. 154

• Conditioning factors
• p. 155

• Notes
• p. 157

• 11
• Appraisal 'firsts' in twenty-first-century Australia
• p. 159

• Trust and Technology
• p. 161

• Appraising census forms
• p. 162

• Business archives
• p. 163

• Australian Society of Archivists
• p. 165

• In summary
• p. 167

• Notes
• p. 170

• Part 4
• Debates
• p. 173

• 12
• Two cheers for the records continuum
• p. 175

• The early to mid-1990s
• p. 176

• Monash University
• p. 177

• Frank Upward
• p. 178

• The Australian audience
• p. 180

• Abstractions, words and diagrams
• p. 182

• Accolades and assessments
• p. 184

• The inevitable limits of continuum theory
• p. 187

• Notes
• p. 189

• 13
• Recordkeeping and recordari: listening to Percy Grainger
• p. 197

• Percy Grainger
• p. 199

• Rose Grainger
• p. 200

• The recordkeeper
• p. 203

• Finding an archives host
• p. 204

• A convenient form of artificial memory
• p. 206

• The Remembrancer
• p. 207

• Rich archive, wretched memory
• p. 209

• Memory-dependent recordkeeping
• p. 210

• Notes
• p. 212

• 14
• Alchemist magpies? Collecting archivists and their critics
• p. 217

• Historian friends
• p. 218

• Sir Hilary Jenkinson
• p. 220

• Chris Hurley
• p. 223

• Richard Cox
• p. 223

• A partial rejoinder
• p. 224

• The collecting archivist
• p. 225

• The results of collecting: it hardly matters
• p. 228

• The results of collecting: it matters
• p. 229

• Notes
• p. 231

• 15
• The poverty of Australia's recordkeeping history
• p. 235

• Acquisition
• p. 236

• Destruction
• p. 238

• Problems with traditional history
• p. 239

• Criticism 1
• It starts only in 1788
• p. 240

• Criticism 2
• A dated notion of what archives are and what archivists do
• p. 241

• Criticism 3
• The neglect of recordkeeping systems history
• p. 242

• Criticism 4
• The absence of a history of the record
• p. 243

• Conclusion
• p. 246

• Notes
• p. 247

• 16
• Acknowledging Indigenous recordkeeping
• p. 251

• Definitions
• p. 253

• The need for new definitions
• p. 254

• Tanderrum
• p. 256

• Message sticks
• p. 258

• Cognitive records, Dreaming archives
• p. 260

• Towards an Inclusive Australian archival science
• p. 262

• Notes
• p. 265

• Epilogue: an archival afterlife
• p. 271

• References
• p. 285

• Index
• p. 319