n.the activities performed in archives, especially relative to their administrationPiggott 1971, 25If such are the reasons for seeking a formal training course, they must be rejected as void of any regard for the basic tenets of archives management, namely conservation and service.Piggott 1971, 28Further, as Australian archival practice has tended to follow British and especially American approaches to archives management, German, French and Dutch trends can probably be passed over with minimum deleterious effect.LAA 1973, 39Archives management: acquisition, arrangement and description, the publication of finding aids, the application of automation, micro-copying. Conservation of materials. Repository planning.Millar 1999, 49Alternately, archivists in small organizations may themselves be solely responsible for all manner of information care: records management, archives management, and so on.McFarland 2007, 139Seeking to explore the current theory of the small archives business, we can apply Drucker’s paradigm to the literature on archives and archives management, particularly the management of lone arranger shops. After examining explicit and tacit assumptions in the small archives business, alternative visions of small archives management will be proposed.Ritzenthaler 2010, 9Preservation is a core function of archives management.Niu 2013, 105Similarly, while the concept and principle of provenance is so significant and fundamental in archives management, computer scientists seem unaware of this fact. They occasionally mention provenance research for assessing authenticity and justifying market values of artworks, but have rarely discussed how provenance is used and described in archives management.Lian 2016, 91‘Archives management system’ refers to the organisation system of archives management which includes the establishment of archival institutes and their relationships.Meissner 2019, 121The main advantage of acquiring any integrated collections management system is the fairly seamless support the system provides for the phases of archives management: acquisition, accessioning, description, and public access.Valpy 2019, 201In this environment, asking governments to develop strong and sustainable records management programs that encompass archives management as a critical component—which means asking them to focus not on short-term dangers but on long-term accountability—is unlikely to succeed.Hogan 2023, 661The chapter also serves as a handy reference for foundational concepts in the field, including archives management, digital archives, records management, electronic records management, and more.the field and discipline committed to maintaining archivesMichelson and Rothenberg 1992, 244Instead, the next section examines trends of information technology that are likely to have the greatest impact on scholarly communication—and, by implication, on archives management.Millar 1998, 103The nature of archives management in any society is dependent on a range of technical, historical, and political realities, from the communications technologies available at a given time to the cultural orientation of the society, from the financial priorities of governments to the professional interests of records keepers.Couture 2005, 36These students can raise awareness among professionals in other disciplines of the issues faced by archival science, professionals who would otherwise not even have heard about archives management.Danielson 2010, 28–29Grover credits Posner with providing Americans new to archives management with a broader perspective: “Our newly developing archival profession needed not merely books on archival practices elsewhere, but a man who could talk to us about them in the light of what we ourselves were trying to do. In this sense Ernst Posner has always been to me and to others a walking Office of Education.”Ritzenthaler 2010, 10In this context, for purposes of illustration and to emphasize preservation program elements, preservation may seem isolated from other aspects of archives management.Ventress 2013, 70This went against the basic principles of archives management, and it was only the passage of the Archives Act in 1960 that gave archivists in NSW a firm foundation with which to start building the state’s archives in a systematic and coherent fashion.Eagle Yun 2021a, 1If you have ever found yourself asked to describe a newly acquired collection or an addition to a collection, to take responsibility for a mysterious backlog, or to learn about principles of archives management, then you have good reason to consider best practices for archival accessioning.Greenwood 2022, 298Although not a new trend, those involved in archives management are seeing rising interest in community archives, citizen archiving, and personal digital archiving.the organizational entity or designated people within it having responsibility for direct oversight and administration of an archivesLAA 1959, 27This Committee was asked to report on the place of archives management in relation to library administration and of archivists in relation to librarians.Saclier 1974, 201Other and equally important arguments are that a statutory body provides an opportunity for the institution to voice publicly its needs, aspirations and frustrations through its published annual report; it provides an accessible link between the archives user and both the archives management and government; and it can act as both a point of appeal for the user and a protection for the archivist.Bonfiglio-Dosio 2005, 102In current archives, on the contrary, there was a progressive loss of qualification of the staff: the consequences for the archives management were disastrous.Bonfiglio-Dosio 2005, 103–104In 2002, the Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali (Department for Cultural Heritage and Activities), the Italian institution charged with State archives management and oversight of public and private archives, created a national working group explicitly charged with proposing some models for the municipal archives management.McFarland 2007, 139Seeking to explore the current theory of the small archives business, we can apply Drucker’s paradigm to the literature on archives and archives management, particularly the management of lone arranger shops. After examining explicit and tacit assumptions in the small archives business, alternative visions of small archives management will be proposed.Danielson 2010, 134–135It is the duty of the archives management to develop a service orientation that colors all phases of the operation, from the construction of finding aids, to the website, to negotiation on deeds of gift, to the front door, to turnaround time on answering email, and to the staffing of the reference desk.An, Deng, and Zhang 2014, 147There are three features in this stage of archives management including the state ownership of archives, a unified state jurisdiction on archives and a centralised state archival information system for accessing and utilising archives.Stoudt 2019, 131This was my first management position, and I found human resources to be one of the most challenging components of archives management.the educational curricula or formal training covering the theories and practices of archivyGreen 1973, 115It is now almost 20 years since Australian archivists met at the seminar on Archives Management in Canberra and agreed to Dr Schellenberg’s suggestion for a Guide to Pre-Federation Archives—the idea of producing preliminary inventories (certainly on the timetable suggested) has proved impracticable; and, it seems, the list of series types and the various suggestions on their use forgotten or ignored.Ormsby 1982, 45The Public Archives had a major role in the development of archives management standards and formal training for archivists in Canada. . . . For a number of years he [W. Kaye Lamb] lectured on archives management to students in the Library Science programme at the University of Ottawa and, when the Archives Section of the Canadian Historical Association became interested in an archives course especially designed to meet Canadian needs, he gave it his full support.Peters 1998, 87Respondents felt that the program was weak in providing the skills needed to prepare them to assume positions as managers within archives, although several commented that they had not taken the archives management elective.Peters 1998, 92Notably, while the program received a low rating for management of archives, it has in fact offered a joint MLIS-MAS course on library and archives management for nearly a decade.Wolak 2023, 669As I finish my MLIS program with a concentration in archives management, this book reads like a review of my coursework.adj.of or relating to archival managementErlandsson 1978, 7Yet an unfortunate bifurcation of the records operations into an archives management function and a records management function, and their temporary organizational relocation to different departments, seems to have seriously hampered the introduction of an effective mandatory and periodic transfer-system.Ormsby 1982, 45The Public Archives had a major role in the development of archives management standards and formal training for archivists in Canada.Ballantyne 1985, 136At the outset, it was hoped that one system could be designed both for use as an archives management tool and as an instrument for better intellectual and physical access to the archival heritage in the custody of the ANQ [Archives nationales du Québec].Duranti 1993, 52The result of this fragmentation is that description proper (that is, the representation of the records in their contextual relationships) has been distinguished and separated from the preparation—in both the records and the archives management context—of internal instruments of administrative, legal and physical control, and from the creation—specifically in the archival context—of tools of retrieval, access and exploitation of the records by external users.McFarland 2007, 139–140Archives management texts do not address in any depth the possibilities and pitfalls of managing oneself and an archival program simultaneously.McFarland 2007, 144In the age of MPLP, Fleckner’s “Dear Mary Jane” appears on 15 archives management course syllabi available on the Internet; Steven L. Hensen’s lesser-known “Revisiting Mary Jane, or Dear Cat: Being Archival in the 21st Century”—an article that emphasizes the growing similarities between librarians and archivists and the importance of data and content standards in the digital world—appears on only three syllabi.Sucha-Xaya 2022, 50Although these documentation methods are based on traditional practices, they actually correspond closely to modern digital archives management practices.
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Terms often used interchangeably for one or more of these senses include archival administration, archival management, archive administration, archive management, and archives administration.
