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 to articulate what can
be contributed to a mid 21 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.
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