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Better Off Forgetting?
Essays on Archives, Public Policy and Collective Memory
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English
Published/Copyright:
2010
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Avery Cheryl :
Cheryl Avery is a professional archivist at the University of Saskatchewan Archives.Holmlund Mona :
Mona Holmlund is an assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Saskatchewan.
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Ken Rasmussen, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina:
'The timely, serious, and passionate essays in Better Off Forgetting? succeed in pointing out that archives are essential for many contemporary debates about public policy. No longer the preserves of a few historians, they are at the centre of helping Canadians work through issues related to accountability and transparency in decision-making.'
'The timely, serious, and passionate essays in Better Off Forgetting? succeed in pointing out that archives are essential for many contemporary debates about public policy. No longer the preserves of a few historians, they are at the centre of helping Canadians work through issues related to accountability and transparency in decision-making.'
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Contributors
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Introduction
xi - Part One: The History of Funding
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1 Pennies from Heaven: The History of Public Funding for Canadian Archives
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2 Lady Sings the Blues: The Public Funding of Archives, Libraries, and Museums in Canada
17 - Part Two: Access and Privacy
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3 Access-to-Information Legislation: A Critical Analysis
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4 Privacy: A Look at the Disenfranchised
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5 The Laurier Promise: Securing Public Access to Historic Census Materials in Canada
71 - Part Three: The Digital Age
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6 Search vs. Research: Full-Text Repositories, Granularity, and the Concept of ‘Source’ in the Digital Environment
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7 Preserving Digital History: Costs and Consequences
124 - Part Four: Accountability and the Public Sphere
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8 Archives, Democratic Accountability, and Truth
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9 Archivists and Public Affairs: Towards a New Archival Public Programming
169 - Part Five: Resource for the Present
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10 Reconciliation in Regions Affected by Armed Conflict: The Role of Archives
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11 Bridging Us to Us: An Argument for the Importance of Archivists in Current Politics and Journalism
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Index
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September 4, 2010
eBook ISBN:
9781442689879
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240
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College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
