Archives and societal provenance : Australian essays

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Archives and societal provenance : Australian essays

Michael Piggott

(Chandos information professional series)

Chandos, 2012

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

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Records and archival arrangements in Australia are globally relevant because Australia's indigenous people 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 of earlier work, comprising the fi rst text to apply a societal provenance perspective to a national setting.After a prologue by Professor Michael Moss entitled A prologue to the afterlife, this title consists of four sections. The first considers historical themes in Australian recordkeeping. The second covers some of the institutions which make the Australian archival story distinctive, such as the Australian War Memorial and prime ministerial libraries. The third discusses the formation of archives. The fourth and final part explores debates surrounding archives in Australia. The book concludes by considering the notion of an archival afterlife.

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A prologue to the afterlife Acknowledgements About the author Chapter 1: Introduction: societal provenance Abstract. Terroir, culture and the individual The aura of societal provenance Australia and the Australian people Other terminology Applying societal provenance Part 1: History Chapter 2: Themes in Australian recordkeeping, 1788-2010 Abstract. British recordkeeping legacy The governing machinery Immigrant nation The ordinary Australian: free immigrants and soldiers Conclusion Chapter 3: Schellenberg in Australia: meaning and precedent Abstract. Assessing Schellenberg's visit Impact on the Paton Inquiry, and on Schellenberg Political use Cultural cringe Impact of later visitors Chapter 4: Archives: an indispensable resource for Australian historians? Abstract. The three-stage discovery model Just how important are archives? The Australian archives-history nexus In summary Chapter 5: The file on H Abstract. Part 2: Institutions Chapter 6: Libraries and archives: from subordination to partnership Abstract. The setting - the 1950s Schellenberg and the Paton Inquiry Librarians' guest, archivists' hope National Library Inquiry Committee Inquiry membership The inquiry supports separation The arguments Other later developments Chapter 7: Making sense of prime ministerial libraries Abstract. Meanings Benefits Challenges Conclusion Chapter 8: War, sacred archiving and C.E.W.Bean Abstract. The setting Archives What it all meant Part 3: Formation Chapter 9: Saving the statistics, destroying the census Abstract. Conducting the census Confidentiality The current debate Supporting destruction The case for retention Claim and counter-claim The independent inquiry Reflections Chapter 10: Documenting Australian business: invisible hand or centrally planned? Abstract Handicaps and solutions Conditioning factors Chapter 11: Appraisal "firsts" in twenty-first-century Australia Abstract. Trust and Technology Appraising census forms Business archives Australian Society of Archivists In summary Part 4: Debates Chapter 12: Two cheers for the records continuum Abstract. The early to mid-1990s Monash University Frank Upward The Australian audience Abstractions, words and diagrams Accolades and assessments The inevitable limits of continuum theory Chapter 13: Recordkeeping and recordari: listening to Percy Grainger Abstract: Percy Grainger Rose Grainger The recordkeeper Finding an archives host A convenient form of artificial memory The Remembrancer Rich archive, wretched memory Memory-dependent recordkeeping Chapter 14: Alchemist magpies? Collecting archivists and their critics Abstract. Historian friends Sir Hilary Jenkinson Chris Hurley Richard Cox A partial rejoinder The collecting archivist The results of collecting: it hardly matters The results of collecting: it matters Chapter 15: The poverty of Australia's recordkeeping history Abstract. Acquisition Destruction Problems with traditional history Criticism 1: it starts only in 1788 Criticism 2: a dated notion of what archives are and what archivists do Criticism 3: the neglect of recordkeeping systems history Criticism 4: the absence of a history of the record Conclusion Chapter 16: Acknowledging Indigenous recordkeeping Abstract. Definitions The need for new definitions Tanderrum Message sticks Cognitive records, Dreaming archives Towards an inclusive Australian archival science Epilogue: an archival afterlife Reference Index

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