Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-294) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Reframing the archive in a digital age : balancing continuity with innovation and responsibility with responsibilities -- The quest to integrate the world's knowledge : American archival engagement with the documentation movement, 1900-1950 -- Standardizing and automating American archival description and access -- Archival description and descriptive metadata in a networked world -- Early analog computing and recordkeeping and the transition to digital -- Research in electronic records management -- Emergent and related areas of research -- Recordkeeping models -- Stewarding the digital: digital repositories, preservation, and curation conclusion : the archival paradigm in the postphysical world.
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