"Estos registros son el acopio de la memoria documental archivada formalmente por el Estado de Chile. Es el patrimonio que se ha conservado desde los años remotos de la invasión española de los valles de Chile, contándonos las historias de nuestra patria, de personas que palpita…
"Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction is a discussion of the debates about the uses of the past contained in British fiction since the Falklands crisis. Suzanne Keen provides a detailed examination of the range of contemporary 'romances of the archive, ' a gen…
This ground-breaking book is the first to provide librarian's, archivists and museum staff with practical guidance to creating and organizing successful exhibitions. Drawing on international museum practice but applicable to any exhibition or display, the book sets out a time-li…
Offers step-by-step advice and instructions for organizing archives and making them available to researchers
Offers step-by-step advice and instructions for organizing archives and making them available to researchers.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert saw governance of the state not as the inherent ability of the king, but as a form of mechanical mastery of subjects such as medieval legal history, physics, navigation, and the price lists of nails, sails, and gunpowder. In The Information Master, Jacob So…
"The typewriter, the card index, and the filing cabinet: these are technologies and modalities of the archive. To the bureaucrat, archives contain little more than garbage, paperwork no longer needed; to the historian, on the other hand, the archive's content stands as a quasi-o…
"The typewriter, the card index, and the filing cabinet: these are technologies and modalities of the archive. To the bureaucrat, archives contain little more than garbage, paperwork no longer needed; to the historian, on the other hand, the archive's content stands as a quasi-o…
"A collection of forty essays by archivists and academics within and outside of the Caribbean region that address challenges of collecting, representing and preserving the records and cultural expressions of former colonial societies, exploring the contribution of these records …
"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 a…
"A Guide to Slavic Collections in the United States and Canada presents up-to-date information on 87 North American libraries that house Slavic and East European research materials, providing current details on recent acquisitions, developments in collection policies, and change…
"A Guide to Slavic Collections in the United States and Canada presents up-to-date information on 87 North American libraries that house Slavic and East European research materials, providing current details on recent acquisitions, developments in collection policies, and change…
