Archives and Archivists 2: Current Trends, New Voices

摘要

This volume contains a baker's dozen of essays by postgraduate students, all, but one, at the masters level, from the School of History and Archives in University College Dublin. Essays in the first section, devoted to theory, will prove particularly useful to students commencing a qualification in archival studies. Three of the four essays are literature reviews: Doran directs readers interested in archives and the postmodern turn to a number of pertinent sources; Brooks' paper provides both a summation of recent debates over the place of history in archival appraisal and a chronological account of changing approaches to appraisal; and Ryan provides an interesting overview of the place of archival theory in the acquisition, appraisal and description of personal archives. In contrast, Wheelock gives a brief synthesis of several archival websites which allow users to provide some element of description.