Cox, Richard J
(2016)
A Very Short Introduction to Archives: Reaching Out to an Informed Public.
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Abstract
For years, Oxford University Press has been publishing a series, Very Short Introductions, offering concise descriptions of a variety of fields and topics intended to be “trenchant and provocative” and “balanced and complete.” Many of these brief volumes have reading guides to facilitate discussion. The series lacks a volume on Archives, the Archive, or Archiving, even though it has a number of titles closely related to this topic (including ones on museums and various documentary forms such as photography and film). What would such a volume include? What value would it have for the archival community? How could such a volume be used? This lecture considers these questions in the context of decades of archival advocacy efforts, major transformations from an analog to digital documentary world, a diversifying archival scholarship, intense debates about the archival mission, and a strengthened graduate education. The lecture also will reflect on why there is no volume on archives in this series.
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