The Silence of the Archive

ISBN-13: 9781783301553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 224 str.

Valerie Johnson; Simon Fowler; David Thomas

Opis

This new book will provide a ground breaking discussion of a major but little considered issue - the silence of the archive: why archives, sometimes seen as the repositories of truth, often fail to satisfy users because they do not contain information which they expect to find.

Spis treści

Introduction to the Series –Geoffrey Yeo

About the authors

Foreword–Anne J. Gilliland

Introduction–David Thomas

1. Enforced silences–Simon Fowler

2. Inappropriate expectations–Simon Fowler

3. The digital–David Thomas

4. Dealing with the silence–Valerie Johnson

5. Imagining archives–David Thomas

6. Solutions to the silence–Valerie Johnson

7. Are things getting better or worse?–David Thomas

Index

O autorze

Valerie Johnson