Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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978-1-4422-7514-0 • Paperback • November 2017 • $64.00 • (£49.00)
978-1-4422-7515-7 • eBook • November 2017 • $60.50 • (£47.00)
Karen F. Gracy is an associate professor in the School of Information at Kent State University. Her scholarly interests span cultural heritage stewardship, which encompasses preservation and conservation processes and practices; digital curation activities that consider the roles of heritage professionals and users in the lifecycle of objects and records; and knowledge representation activities such as definitions of knowledge domains, development of standards for description, and application of new technologies to improve access to cultural heritage objects.
Chapter 1: Evidence and Exigency: Reconstructing and Reconciling Records for Life After Conflict, Anne J. Gilliland
Chapter 2: A Case Study in Access to the Archival Records of the Military Courts of the Former Yugoslavia, Aida Škoro Babić
Chapter 3: On “Monstrous” Subjects and Human Rights Documentation, Mario Ramirez
Chapter 4: Archiving the Ephemeral Experience, Jennifer Jenkins
Chapter 5: Insights from Archivists to Educate for Advocacy, Sarah Buchanan
Chapter 6: Using Scenario Planning and Personas as an Aid to Reducing Uncertainty About Future Users, Erik A.M. Borglunda & Lena-Maria Öberg
Emerging Trends in Archival Science offers an impressive and compelling body of scholarship concerning future directions in archival studies and pedagogy, particularly with respect to the subjects of human rights, collection development, advocacy, and appraisal. The volume’s six chapters are exceptionally well written and meticulously researched and, through the adroit incorporation of innovative ideas and interdisciplinary connections, they offer truly fresh perspectives on both established and emergent concepts in archival studies packed with a staggering amount of complexity and nuance given their relatively short page lengths.
— Archival Issues
This volume showcases some of the very best new research ideas from practice and the academy. It demonstrates the value of archival thinking when applied to social justice issues and dislocation and war and offers new approaches to documenting social events.
— Elizabeth Shepherd, professor of archives and records management and director of research, University College London
This volume pushes us to rethink traditional archival roles and responsibilities. From refugees and survivors of human rights abuse to performance artists and citizens, the archival stakeholders described here shift our narrow conceptions of record creators and users and expand the field for the better.
— Michelle Caswell Ph.D, assistant professor, Department of Information Studies, University of California–Los Angeles
Karen F. Gracy has brought together a series of articles that demonstrates the power and relevance of international archival scholarship in the twenty-first century. Touching on issues of historical consciousness, postfactual politics, collective memory, identity, human rights, and social justice, the articles broaden our understanding of the nature and function of recorded knowledge, the impact of records on the lives of those who create them and those whose lives are bound within them, and the choices that record-keeping professionals face when negotiating various rights and claims in the name of documenting, acquiring, and preserving that knowledge and making it accessible.
— Ciaran B. Trace, associate professor, School of Information, University of Texas–Austin, and editor, Information & Culture: A Journal of History
Overall, this book was read happily, was stimulating and displays the outward-facing, interdisciplinary
nature of archival science today. That this book exists and that it illustrates the
ability and desire of practitioners and theorists to engage with the archive and to consider it in
relation to some of the big questions of our time is to be welcomed.
— Archives and Records: The Journal of the Archives and Records Association