uh huh. Except that I don't acquire (or only very occasionally - and not
without prior appraisal)- my archives is the repository for all the
institutional records of my organisation, pending appraisal.
Clare Cowling
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Sorry to be pedantic, but I would suggest that "probably the most important
of all an archives' functions" is acquisition - after all, if nothing is
collected, there is nothing to review (although I accept that 'acquisition'
and 'appraisal' are often inter-linked). The question of whether only
qualified archivists should be responsible for pro-active acquisition is an
interesting one. Certainly, in the US, important collections relating to
minority ethnic communities have been acquired only as a result of employing
'intermediaries' within those communities who don't have an archive
background.
> Appraisal is probably the most important of all an archives' functions and
should only be undertaken
> by experienced professionals...it's the appraisal process, after all,
which decides once and for all > what the historians of the future are going
to use and interpret.
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