Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)最新文献

{"title":"Preparing Collections for Digitization","authors":"H. Forde","doi":"10.1080/00379816.2012.666342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379816.2012.666342","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"33 1","pages":"117 - 118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379816.2012.666342","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58837334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Corsini Letters","authors":"M. Moss","doi":"10.1080/00379816.2012.666344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379816.2012.666344","url":null,"abstract":"professional backgrounds and outlooks. Such insights make this book particularly valuable to anyone contemplating a career in archives or records management as it demonstrates conclusively that there is far more to the work than merely the cataloguing of old documents. Similarly, a senior manager of an archival service seeking to understand what his/her archivist is trying to achieve would get a realistic illustration here. For those wishing to amplify their knowledge, there is also a substantial amount of recommended further reading, both sector-specific and more general. The book has a clear goal – to support archivists and records managers who are leading or will lead services. But it also seeks ultimately to influence the wider sector. Good leadership will result in our professional activity being more pervasive, effective and valued. This reviewer was struck by several contributors referring to their activities as aggressive as in aggressively pursued or cultivated. It is not a word often used by or about archives or archivists. Perhaps it is a useful pointer to a successful way of working. This book needs to be read in its entirety, not dipped into. Some chapters may seem more or less relevant to one’s own professional context but the lessons are cumulative. The two final chapters crystallise the points made by the contributors, give a structure to the book and provide reinforcement of the messages. This is a useful and relevant addition to the study and application of leadership in our professions and a springboard for further topical debate.","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"33 1","pages":"121 - 123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379816.2012.666344","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58837815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Showing Britain to Itself: Changes in Collecting Policy from the Festival of Britain to London 2012","authors":"E. Jarman","doi":"10.1080/00379816.2012.665002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379816.2012.665002","url":null,"abstract":"This article uses a comparison of two national events, the 1951 Festival of Britain, andthe London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, to examine developments in archival collecting policy and practice. It examines the possible reasons for the relative scarcity of Festival records and argues that these gaps in the archival record demonstrate the need for a national collecting strategy for London 2012, the implementation of which is made possible through advances in technology, together with a changed understanding of the record-keeper's role.","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"33 1","pages":"41 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379816.2012.665002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58836761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dismantling Bureaucracies: Consequences for Record-keeping inNew Zealand and in Estonia","authors":"G. Oliver, Kurmo Konsa","doi":"10.1080/00379816.2012.665318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379816.2012.665318","url":null,"abstract":"In the late twentieth century, both New Zealand and Estonia experienced societal changes which impacted on the nature and functioning of organizations. The impact on record-keeping was quite different in these two environments. A comparative case study approach focusing on an organization with the same functions in both countries (the postal service) is used to illustrate these differences. There was a recognition of the need for records and document management at the highest management levels in Estonian Post, which was completely absent in New Zealand Post. In Estonia, the essential nature of records management was clearly recognized and accepted, whereas in New Zealand record-keeping traditions were not sufficiently embedded to survive organizational change.","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"33 1","pages":"107 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379816.2012.665318","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58836379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Love is Not Enough: Advocacy, Influence and the Development ofArchives","authors":"L. Hackman","doi":"10.1080/00379816.2012.666116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379816.2012.666116","url":null,"abstract":"This position piece has been revised slightly by the author from his keynote address delivered at the 2011 annual meeting of the Archives and Records Association in Edinburgh. It reflects the personal views of the author, drawing on ideas he explored in more detail in the lead section of the book he edited, Many Happy Returns: Advocacy and the Development of Archives , which was published by the Society of American Archivists (SAA) early in 2011. That the article depends so much on the author's personal experiences and observation reflects the fact that our professional literature gives scant attention to advocacy for archives as organizations, especially to advocacy directly aimed at increasing the resources and strengthening the infrastructure of individual archives. This article and the author's fuller recommendations in Many Happy Returns seek to reduce this gap by suggesting how to set an advocacy agenda for an archives, how to identify the subjects for advocacy, and how archivists and their allies may become more effective in advocacy for archives.","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"33 1","pages":"21 - 9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379816.2012.666116","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58837010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Community Engagement and the Olympics","authors":"Louis Ray","doi":"10.1080/00379816.2012.666170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379816.2012.666170","url":null,"abstract":"I vividly recall, as a child, the thrill when our ‘local hero’, the athlete Steve Ovett, visited my primary school and allowed each one of us to hold his Olympic 800m Gold Medal. The next time I felt that same visceral engagement from touching a historically significant object was probably on my first day working in an archive service. Therefore, I was delighted when, in my capacity as Convenor of the Archives & Records Association’s Public Services Quality Group Sub-committee on Volunteering, I was given the opportunity by the Editorial Board to act as guest editor for this themed edition on ‘Community Engagement and the Olympic and Paralympic Games’. Although for me there is an irony in that it has been Steve Ovett’s arch track rival, Sebastian (now Lord) Coe, who has masterminded London’s successful bid for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and overseen its delivery, thus allowing me this opportunity. At this point in time we do not know whether this summer’s upcoming sporting spectacular will be considered a success or not—it is still very much a work in progress. The same is true of some of the projects and initiatives highlighted by contributors to this edition. Indeed the role of archives in community engagement, and the ability of archive services to successfully involve communities is, in itself, a continuing work in progress. As Victor Gray asserted in 2002, reflecting back on the past achievements of the sector and looking to the future, ‘For the rising generation, the primary challenge is going to be that of demonstrating that this has all been worthwhile, a challenge that will be met by forceful advocacy, by practical demonstration of what archives can mean and do for society, and above all, in my view, by forging relationships with professional partners, with wider social agencies, with the media, and through all these, with society at large’. Ten years on from the Society of Archivists’ conference where he set out this vision, the articles in this edition could be seen as an indicator of how well this generation is stepping up to that challenge. Whilst we await judgement on the achievements of the Games, what we do know is what made London’s bid, to host the Olympics and Paralympics in 2012, successful. In much part, this was because it emphasized that legacy was key to the aims, planning and delivery of the project. Not just through a sustainable Olympic Park","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"33 1","pages":"1 - 8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379816.2012.666170","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58837171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"West Yorkshire's Sporting Heroes","authors":"R. Tapp","doi":"10.1080/00379816.2012.665322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379816.2012.665322","url":null,"abstract":"This article attempts to offer an insight into the benefits of merging sport and heritage work, through the experiences of the Sporting Heroes project being delivered by the West Yorkshire Archive Service. This summer, the Olympic and Paralympic Games will open in London before millions of spectators across the globe. There is no doubting the opportunities for raising and improving the national profile and London tourism industry, and also increasing local jobs, housing and business trade through the Olympic site alone. However, the wider question being addressed here is how the rest of the UK can take advantage of the once-in-a-lifetime event coming to these shores, in particular the heritage sector, to create a legacy of sporting archival collections (mostly in digital format) and stronger, broader means of partnership-working. To add an alternative angle to this discussion, it considers whether the phenomenon of the London 2012 Games has in fact been such a driving force behind the emergence of sports heritage projects and their potentially successful outcomes.","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"33 1","pages":"75 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379816.2012.665322","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58837209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Seals and Sealing Practices","authors":"A. Ailes","doi":"10.1080/00379816.2012.666340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379816.2012.666340","url":null,"abstract":"Seals are back on the archival agenda. This is partly due to a series of recent highprofile exhibitions and conferences, partly due to the AHRC-funded Seals in Medieval Wales project based in Aberystwyth and led by the author of this latest British Records Association user guide, and partly due to the launch of over 3000 seal images on The National Archives website. Seals and Sealing Practices provides a very valuable and well-illustrated introduction to this often ignored and often misunderstood subject. How often do we see in some finding aid or catalogue a detailed description of a document to which is limply appended the single, stark word ‘seal’ and sometimes not even that? This guide is the first of its kind on the subject since Jenkinson’s excellent Guide to Seals in the Public Record Office last revised in 1968. It covers such subjects as seals in early medieval Britain (and Wales and Scotland are, incidentally, well represented throughout), royal and government seals, seals of office and personal seals. Of especial use for archivists are the appendices on recording seals, and their preservation and handling. For example, we are reminded that it is essential to read the sealing clause of a document since this might explain why someone else’s seal has been used in conjunction with, perhaps even instead of, that of the party concerned; this should be recorded. The author correctly points out that information about seals is generally not taught to students of history or even of archives, yet they are invaluable sources of identification and evidence. This guide is full of fascinating sigillographic snippets – a clerk’s hands might be warm enough to melt the sealing wax for an impression to be made, what to do if someone brings into a record office a seal die or ‘matrix’, that the colour of certain government seals could indicate the status of the document to which they were attached; and that peasants could own seals (though whether this applied to villeins is debatable). The author highlights the paradox that whilst seals were supposedly personal and unique in order to provide indisputable validation for a document, yet so-called ‘anonymous’ seals devoid of a name in the legend and often identical in design were mass produced and freely bought. Time and again, we are reminded that more research needs to be done. New also provides useful descriptions of the various types of seals used, providing clear guidance as to the Journal of the Society of Archivists Vol. 33, No. 1, April 2012, 113–126","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"33 1","pages":"113 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379816.2012.666340","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58837329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Ethical Archivist","authors":"J. Sheppard","doi":"10.1080/00379816.2011.603892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379816.2011.603892","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"59 1","pages":"308 - 312"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379816.2011.603892","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58835992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Storing Information in the Cloud – A Research Project","authors":"K. Ferguson-Boucher, Nicole Convery","doi":"10.1080/00379816.2011.619693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00379816.2011.619693","url":null,"abstract":"Cloud computing as a new delivery model is proving challenging for recordkeeping professionals. The ARA/Aberystwyth University research project, ‘Storing Information in the Cloud’ aimed to investigate the management, operational and technical issues surrounding the storage of information in the cloud. It also set out to develop a toolkit that could assist information professionals in assessing the risks and benefits of outsourcing information storage and processing. Based on the information gathered through a literature review, questionnaire, an unconference, as well as interviews with cloud providers and customers, the outcomes included the Cloud Computing Toolkit, a list of cloud computer resources relevant to the records and information community and specific recommendations. These include further research into the implications of cloud computing for record-keeping principles and practice and the development of cloud-specific guidance and policies and a pool of resources relating to cloud computing and information management. The extension of the research to consider its implication for the long-term preservation of digital material was also a recommendation and the development of a more active role for professional bodies in bringing together information professionals and in forming interest/working groups on specific related to cloud computing. New technologies or new models continue to challenge the profession's ability to maintain information governance and assurance and on-going research is required to ensure that we address the practical and strategic issues of the fluid information ecology.","PeriodicalId":81733,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society of Archivists. Society of Archivists (Great Britain)","volume":"32 1","pages":"221 - 239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00379816.2011.619693","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58835959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}