n.the field and discipline committed to maintaining archives, including concepts, principles, and activities guiding such work that may also comprise organizational responsibility or relevant educational curricula or formal trainingJenkinson 1922, 41The authority taking over must be prepared to subscribe to the ordinary rules of Archive management directed to the preservation of Archive character.Jenkinson 1922, 84The most important of all principles of Archive Management is named from it le respect pour les fonds.Hardenberg 1973, 53–54A typical contemporary view was expressed by a member of the Lower Chamber about 1846/7 who considered that archive management should usually be as honourable rather than lucrative profession.Orlovich 1976, 210If the more enlightened administrators and librarians gave evidence of some appreciation of the already well laid-down rules of archive management, the same is not so clearly evident in the case of some of the custodians of archives.Ogden 1977, 196The first half-course for three credits at the University of Alberta, School of Library Science, will be in Archive Management.National Archival Forum 1985, 156It is premised on the assumption that the physical and intellectual control of records, shall, for the purposes of archive management, be adequately accomplished by the attribution of those records, in accordance with the principle of provenance, to the agency in which they originated.Cook 1986, 24The traditions of archive management developed by such authorities are varied, because they naturally reflect the special problems and characteristics of their specialist field.Withers and Grout 2006, 30In practice, the realization of these aims presented different issues to do with what an archive is and with the politics of archive management.Klareld and Gidlund 2017, 105The dominant story of status of the final versus the middle archive restrains the translation and enactment of archive management in the digital context.Oppenheimer 2020, 176Secondly, there appeared to be no national strategy for the maintenance of Australian Red Cross archives, little appetite within the organisation for a budget for archive management, and a general lack of recognition of the historical importance of their archives.Pan and Duranti 2020, 310The fourth circumstance that electronic data kept by means of archive management can be used to justify the value of records and archival management program in guaranteeing the evidentiary capacity of electronic data in organisations. Yet, this statement is quite general and does not specify what “by means of archive management” involves. In other words, can electronic data managed by poor archival management program still be presumed authentic?
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This term only appears in sources from Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Terms often used interchangeably include archival administration, archival management, archive administration, archives administration, and archives management.
