Research Catalog

Title

Archives and societal provenance : Australian essays / Michael Piggott.

Author

Piggott, Michael.

Publication

Oxford, UK : Chandos Pub., 2012.

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Details

Description

xxiv, 334 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Records and archival arrangements in Australia are globally relevant because Australia's indigenous peoples represent the oldest living culture in the world, and because modern Australia is an ex-colonial society now heavily multicultural in outlook. Archives and societal provenance explores this distinctiveness using the theoretical concept of societal provenance as propounded by Canadian archival scholars led by Dr Tom Nesmith. The book's seventeen essays blend new writing and re-workings and combinations of earlier work and comprise the first text to present a societal provenance perspective to a national setting. The book is divided into four sections. The first part looks at the historical context of archives in Australia; the second part covers the institutions involved in the Australian archival story; the third part discusses the formation of archives; and the fourth part considers the debates surrounding archives in Australia. The book concludes with a consideration of the notion of an archival afterlife." --backcover.

Series Statement

Chandos information professional series

Uniform Title

Chandos information professional series.

Subject

Archives > Australia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-318) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: societal provenance -- Part 1: History: Themes in Australian recordkeeping, 1788-2010 -- Schellenberg in Australia: meaning and precedent -- Archives: an indispensable resource for Australian historians? -- The file on H -- Part 2: Institutions: Libraries and archives: from subordination to partnership -- Making sense of prime ministerial libraries -- War, sacred archiving and C.E.W. Bean -- Part 3: Formation: Saving the statistics, destroying the census -- Documenting Australian business: invisible hand or centrally planned? -- Appraisal "firsts" in twenty-first century Australia -- Part 4: Debates : Two cheers for the records continuum -- Recordkeeping and recordari: listening to Percy Grainger -- Alchemist magpies? : collecting archivists and their critics -- The poverty of Australia's recordkeeping history -- Acknowledging Indigenous recordkeeping -- Epilogue: an archival afterlife.

ISBN

• 1843347121 (pbk.)
• 9781843347125 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 815515011
• SCSB-12458618

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library