- 240 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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Better Off Forgetting?
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.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part One: The History of Funding
- 1 Pennies from Heaven: The History of Public Funding for Canadian Archives
- 2 Lady Sings the Blues: The Public Funding of Archives, Libraries, and Museums in Canada
- Part Two: Access and Privacy
- 3 Access-to-Information Legislation: A Critical Analysis
- 4 Privacy: A Look at the Disenfranchised
- 5 The Laurier Promise: Securing Public Access to Historic Census Materials in Canada
- Part Three: The Digital Age
- 6 Search vs. Research: Full-Text Repositories, Granularity, and the Concept of ‘Source’ in the Digital Environment
- 7 Preserving Digital History: Costs and Consequences
- Part Four: Accountability and the Public Sphere
- 8 Archives, Democratic Accountability, and Truth
- 9 Archivists and Public Affairs: Towards a New Archival Public Programming
- Part Five: Resource for the Present
- 10 Reconciliation in Regions Affected by Armed Conflict: The Role of Archives
- 11 Bridging Us to Us: An Argument for the Importance of Archivists in Current Politics and Journalism
- Index