Description: Innovative Practices for Archives and Special Collections

摘要

How many ways can there be to describe archives? It can be tempting to assume that the standards, codifications, textbooks and tools that archivists have available cover the field thoroughly. But practising archivists also know that we face significant challenges - limited resources and competing priorities, the nature of born-digital records, complex or otherwise difficult collections, to name just a few - that struggling on with standard practices will not meet. As in other areas of our professional practice, we need to innovate.