商品簡介
Appraisal and Acquisition: Innovative Practices for Archives and Special Collectionsexplores how archivists and special collections librarians in organizations of different sizes and types have approached the challenges of collection, as well as exploring opportunities to acquire new kinds of materials and conduct thoughtful reappraisal. This volume will be useful to those working in archives and special collections as well as other cultural heritage organizations, and provides ideas ranging from those that require long-term planning and coordination to ones that could be more quickly implemented. The chapters also provide students and educators in archives, library, and public history graduate programs a resource for understanding the varieties of issues related to appraisal and acquisition and how they can be addressed.
作者簡介
Kate Theimer is the author of the popular blog ArchivesNext and a frequent writer, speaker and commentator on issues related to the future of archives. She is the editor of the Rowman & Littlefield series,Innovative Practices for Archives & Special Collections, in which volumes on management, description, outreach, and reference and access were published in 2014. She is also the author ofWeb 2.0 Tools and Strategies for Archives and Local History Collectionsand the editor of A Different Kind of Web: New Connections between Archives and Our Users, as well having contributed chapters toMany Happy Returns: Advocacy for Archives and Archivists,The Future of Archives and Recordkeeping, and the forthcomingEncyclopedia of Archival Concepts, Principles, and Practices. She has published articles in theAmerican Archivist and the Journal of Digital Humanities.
Kate served on the Council of the Society of American Archivists from 2010 to 2013. Before starting her career as an independent writer and editor, she worked in the policy division of the National Archives and Records Administration in College Park, Maryland. She holds an MSI with a specialization in archives and records management from the University of Michigan and an MA in art history from the University of Maryland.
