TY - BOOK ID - 85645816 TI - Community archives : the shaping of memory AU - Bastian, Jeannette Allis. AU - Alexander, Ben PY - 2009 SN - 1856049043 1856046397 PB - London : Facet Pub., DB - UniCat KW - Archives KW - Municipal archives. KW - Collective memory. KW - Collective remembrance KW - Common memory KW - Cultural memory KW - Emblematic memory KW - Historical memory KW - National memory KW - Public memory KW - Social memory KW - Memory KW - Social psychology KW - Group identity KW - National characteristics KW - City archives KW - Local archives KW - Collection management in archives KW - Collections management in archives KW - Documents KW - Manuscript depositories KW - Manuscript repositories KW - Manuscripts KW - Documentation KW - History KW - Information services KW - Records KW - Cartularies KW - Charters KW - Diplomatics KW - Public records KW - Social aspects. KW - Collection management. KW - Collections management KW - Depositories KW - Repositories UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85645816 AB - How do archives and other cultural institutions such as museums determine the boundaries of a particular community, and of their own institutional reach, in constructing effective strategies and methodologies for selecting and maintaining appropriate material evidence? This book offers guidance for archivists, record managers and museums professionals faced with such issues in their daily work. This edited collection explores the relationships between communities and the records they create at both practical and scholarly levels. It focuses on the ways in which records reflect community identity and collective memory, and the implications of capturing, appraising and documenting these core societal elements - with particular focus on the ways in which recent advances in technology can overcome traditional obstacles, as well as how technologies themselves offer possibilities of creating new virtual communities. It is divided into five themes: a community archives model; communities and non-traditional record keeping; records loss, destruction and recovery; online communities: how technology brings communities and their records together; and, building a community archive. This book will appeal to practitioners, researchers, and academics in the archives and records community as well as to historians and other scholars concerned with community building and social issues. ER -