Archives Principles and Practice

摘要

Laura Miller is a distinguished Canadian Archivist and Information Manager with an impressive record as both an educator and practitioner. This book is yet another "how to do" guide for the inexperienced and uninitiated. Like all other manuals it covers all the archival bases from the ontological question - what are archives? (Chapter 1), through the complex issue of trust (Chapter 3), provenance and original order and respect des fonts (Chapter 5) and ending with the challenge of digital archives (Chapter 9). This is all very worthy and motherhood and apple pie, but one wonders why the publishers should have thought there was a need for yet another manual at such a price by an author who could have persuaded to challenge much of this content.