Thinking about and working with archives and records: a personal reflection on theory and practice
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The author began work in 1975. A senior colleague gave him two memorable pieces of advice during his first week in the archives profession. Firstly, he was told never to waste time on women’s papers. Secondly, he was urged to make sure that anything he earmarked for disposal was actually destroyed and that no evidence of the matter was kept, lest historians should make a fuss about it later. Clearly, conventional thinking about archives and records has moved on significantly over the last forty years. During that period the author has written or co-authored about 25 publications, which deal with a range of inter-related issues that bear on record keeping; such as accountability, appraisal, orality, the development of systems over time, transparency and associated Freedom of Information legislation and what the future might hold. Here, as a result of reflection on the development of his own thinking, his publications and the experiences that have shaped him, he sets out the position that for post-modernist approaches to archive and records theory to have a beneficial effect it is profoundly helpful to supplement them with the concepts of hermeneutics and fiduciarity and to use these concepts with a degree of granularity sufficient to provide a genuine foundation of evidence.
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تاریخ انتشار 2016