Better Off Forgetting? : : Essays on Archives, Public Policy and Collective Memory /

Better Off Forgetting? : : Essays on Archives, Public Policy and Collective Memory / / Mona Holmlund, Cheryl Avery.

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Throughout Canada, provincial, federal, and municipal archives exist to house the records we produce. Some conceive of these institutions as old and staid, suggesting that archives are somehow trapped in the past. But archives are more than resources for professional scholars and interested individu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
VerfasserIn:
Avery, Cheryl,
Holmlund, Mona ,
TeilnehmendeR:
Holmlund, Mona ,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©2010
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Introduction / Avery, Cheryl / Holmlund, Mona
  • Part One: The History of Funding
  • 1 Pennies from Heaven: The History of Public Funding for Canadian Archives / Beyea, Marion
  • 2 Lady Sings the Blues: The Public Funding of Archives, Libraries, and Museums in Canada / Sweeney, Shelley
  • Part Two: Access and Privacy
  • 3 Access-to-Information Legislation: A Critical Analysis / Gafuik, Jo-Ann Munn
  • 4 Privacy: A Look at the Disenfranchised / Surtees, Doug
  • 5 The Laurier Promise: Securing Public Access to Historic Census Materials in Canada / Cook, Terry / Waiser, Bill
  • Part Three: The Digital Age
  • 6 Search vs. Research: Full-Text Repositories, Granularity, and the Concept of 'Source' in the Digital Environment / Cole, Robert / Hackett, Chris
  • 7 Preserving Digital History: Costs and Consequences / Hackett, Yvette
  • Part Four: Accountability and the Public Sphere
  • 8 Archives, Democratic Accountability, and Truth / Eastwood, Terry
  • 9 Archivists and Public Affairs: Towards a New Archival Public Programming / Nesmith, Tom
  • Part Five: Resource for the Present
  • 10 Reconciliation in Regions Affected by Armed Conflict: The Role of Archives / Adami, Tom / Hunt, Martha
  • 11 Bridging Us to Us: An Argument for the Importance of Archivists in Current Politics and Journalism / Steiner, Robert
  • Index

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