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Personal Archives and a New Archival Calling - Readings, Reflections and Ruminations (Paperback, New)
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Personal Archives and a New Archival Calling - Readings, Reflections and Ruminations (Paperback, New)
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In Personal Archives and a New Archival Calling: Readings,
Reflections and Ruminations, Richard J. Cox argues that personal
archives might be assuming a new importance in society. As the
technical means for creating, maintaining, and using documents are
improving and becoming more cost-effective, individuals and
families are seeking to preserve their old documents, especially
traditional paper forms, as a connection to a past that may seem to
be in risk of being of being swallowed up in the immense digital
gadgetry in our Internet Age. There is a reversal to other
technologies as well, such as leather bound journals and fountain
pens, by some individuals resisting or protesting the increasingly
digital world they reside in. Behind these very different
approaches are similar impulses, and, these divergent paths raise
identical questions about the role and purpose of traditional
archives dating back two centuries and more. Personal recordkeeping
raises a remarkable array of issues and concerns about records and
their preservation, public or collective memory, the mission of
professional records managers and archivists, the nature of the
role of the institutional archives, and the function of the
individual citizen as their own archivist. Archivists need to
develop a new partnership with the public, and the public needs to
learn from the archivists the essentials of preserving documentary
materials. We are on the cusp of seeing a new kind of archival
future, and whether this is good or bad depends on how well
archivists equip citizen archivists.
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