Better off forgetting? : essays on archives, public policy, and collective memory /

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Imprint:Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2010.
Description:xvii, 242 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Archives -- Canada.
Public records -- Canada -- Management.
Archives -- Government policy -- Canada.
Archives -- Access control.
Digital preservation.
Public records -- Management.
Archives -- Canada.
Archives publiques -- Canada -- Gestion.
Archives -- Politique gouvernementale -- Canada.
Archives -- Accès -- Contrôle.
Conservation de l'information électronique.
Archives publiques -- Gestion.
Archieven
Archiefwezen
Collectief geheugen
Archives.
Archives -- Access control.
Archives -- Government policy.
Digital preservation.
Public records -- Management.
Canada
Canada.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8151284
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Other authors / contributors:Avery, Cheryl.
Holmlund, Mona.
ISBN:9781442641679 (bound)
1442641673 (bound)
9781442610804 (pbk.)
1442610808 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"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 individuals. With an increasing emphasis on transparency in government and public institutions, archives have become essential tools for accountability.
Better Off Forgetting? offers a reappraisal of archives and a look at the challenges they face in a time when issues of freedom of information, privacy, technology, and digitization are increasingly important. The contributors argue that archives are essential to contemporary debates about public policy and make a case for more status, funding, and influence within public bureaucracies. While stimulating debate about our rapidly changing information environment, Better Off Forgetting? focuses on the continuing role of archives in gathering and preserving our collective memory."--pub. desc.

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