Better off Forgetting?
Essays on Archives, Public Policy, and Collective Memory
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Word Count
60,000 words, Guess
Page Count
240 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781442610804
- ISBN-101442610808
- Library of Congress Control Number2010513391
- OCLC Control Number612722266
- Better World Books9781442610804
and 2 more
- Better World BooksP9-CHA-058
- Open LibraryOL28753978M
Classifications
- LCCCD3621 .B47 2010
- LCCCD3621 .B48 2010
Description
"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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