Better off forgetting? : essays on archives, public policy, and collective memory / edited by Cheryl Avery and Mona Holmlund.
"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 and interested in...
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2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Pennies from Heaven: The History of Public Funding for Canadian Archives / Marion Beyea
- Lady Sings the Blues: The Public Funding of Archives, Libraries, and Museums in Canada / Shelley Sweeney
- Access-to-Information Legislation: A Critical Analysis / Jo-Ann Munn Gafuik
- Privacy: A Look at the Disenfranchized / Doug Surtees
- The Laurier Promise: Securing Public Access to Historic Census Materials in Canada / Terry Cook and Bill Waiser
- Search vs. Research: Full-Text Repositories, Granularity, and the Concept of 'Source' in the Digital Environment / Robert Cole and Chris Hackett
- Preserving Digital History: Costs and Consequences / Yvette Hackett
- Archives, Democratic Accountability, and Truth / Terry Eastwood
- Archivists and Public Affairs: Towards a New Archival Public Programming / Tom Nesmith
- Reconciliation in Regions Affected by Armed Conflict: The Role of Archives / Tom Adami and Martha Hunt
- Bridging Us to Us: An Argument for the Importance of Archivists in Current Politics and Journalism / Robert Steiner.