Archival appraisal : theory and practice / Barbara Craig.
Publication details: München : K.G. Saur, 2004.Description: x, 224 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9783598115387
- 3598115385 (hd. bd. : alk. paper)
- 025.21 23 CRA
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Contents:
CHAPTER ONE. An overview of appraisal: What is it? Who does it? Why is it done?
Appraisal-choosing information to keep
Reasons for choice in personal appraisal
Physical person and corporate person
Perspectives of the organization or group
why appraise
CHAPTER TWO. Appraisal and archival appraisal in modern organizations – purpose, participants, roles and responsibilities
Managing records in an organization
Appraisal as an organizing concept for general management
Perspective on appraisal in an organization:the importance of points of view
Role of the archivist in records appraisal in a company or other types of organization
Archival programmes and institutions in their unique role
CHAPTER THREE. The many views on appraisal in archive programmes
Appraisal in the economy of archives
Orienting appraisal to its role in an archive programme
The special relation of appraisal to acquisitions
Acquisition in archives programmes and institutions-dependence and independence
Passive versus active implementation of acquisition mandates
CHAPTER FOUR. Archival appraisal briefly reviewed in historical context
Appraisal in modern times
The archivist as advisor and preserver
Registries, decentralized records keeping and bureaucracies
The independent role of the archives
Archives as a reflection of society
CHAPTER FIVE. Practicing appraisal – common grounds and common problems
Agreements about appraisal
Important to develop and the articulate a theory of appraisal
A systematic, archive-directed appraisal is favored as strategy
Tools should be used and developed further as needed
Appraisal based solely on locating values in specific records is largely unworkable
CHAPTER SIX. Architecture of responsible appraisal – a foundation and a framework
Our knowledge of appraisal
The components of an appraisal architecture sketched
Procedures express professional competence and obligations
Benefits of procedure
Choosing and accounting for choices
CHAPTER SEVEN. A brief general summary
Living with ambiguity and qualitative judgments
The common ground upon which appraisal rests records and human actions
An introductory study guide
Index: p. 220-224.
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