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Archives and the public interest : selected essays by Ernst Posner / edited by Ken Munden ; with a new introduction by Angelika Menne-Haritz.

Title
Archives and the public interest : selected essays by Ernst Posner / edited by Ken Munden ; with a new introduction by Angelika Menne-Haritz.
Author
Posner, Ernst.
Publication
Chicago : Society of American Archivists, c2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Munden, Kenneth W. (Kenneth White)
  • Society of American Archivists
Description
xiv, 215 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Archives
  • Archives > Social aspects
  • Public interest
  • Archives > Europe
  • Archives > United States
Note
  • Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Public Affairs Press, [1967].
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
pt. I. Basic principles. Some aspects of archival development since the French Revolution -- Max Lehmann and the genesis of the principle of provenance -- pt. II. The training of archivists. European experiences in training archivists -- Archival training in the United States -- pt. III. The European example. Impressions of an itinerant archivist in Europe -- The role of records in German administration -- The administration of current records in Italian public agencies -- European experiences in protecting and preserving local records -- pt. IV. The American experience. Archival administration in the United States -- The National Archives and the archivist theorist -- Solon Justus Buck and the National Archives -- The college and university archives in the United States -- What, then, is the American archivist, this new man -- pt. V. Archivists in wartime. Effects of changes of sovereignty on archives -- Public records under military occupation -- pt. VI. Postscript. Archivists and international awareness.
ISBN
1931666164
LCCN
^^2006017365
OCLC
  • 70054154
  • SCSB-11280498
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library