Processing the Past explores the dramatic changes taking place in historical understanding
and archival management, and hence the relations between historians and archivists …

This new and extensively revised second edition offers an international perspective on
archives management, providing authoritative guidance relevant to collections-based …

The Primarily History project is the first international, comparative study to examine
historians' information-seeking behaviors since the advent of the World Wide Web …

A landmark textbook on digital libraries for LIS students, educators and practising
information professionals throughout the world. Exploring Digital Libraries is a highly …

This paper argues that, within the recordkeeping community, perceptions of records are
subject to the" prototype" effects identified in recent psychological studies. Archivists and …

A number of recent archival initiatives have asserted a relationship between archival
description and authenticity. This article establishes a preliminary foundation for …

This article provides an overview of the literature related to metadata in the context of
archives and museums. This article has several goals: to outline current practices, theories …

The importance of records in modern society is explored by re-examining some of the
historical antecedents for critical functions in the modern records professions. The motivation …

User studies have been conducted for many years in the information and library science
fields. In the archival world, this phenomenon has not been as common and less emphasis …

Virtual reunification is the strategy of reassembling physically dispersed heritage collections
to produce a consolidated, digitized representation of scattered artifacts, literary and artistic …