Archives and Archivists

by Holland, Ailsa C.; Manning, Kate

• ISBN13: 9781846820168
• ISBN10: 1846820162
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-31
• Publisher: Four Courts Press

Summary

University College Dublin has provided education on archives for 35 years mainly in the Archives Department. This book of essays celebrates its role in a timely manner as the Archives Department has become part of the new UCD School of History and Archives. The topics covered here include aspects of the history of archives, record keeping, ethics and ethical issues, the publication of diaries, digitisation and digital preservation, the representation of archives in literature, the use of archives in education, the curatorship of ancient, medieval and early modern archives, the management of church and local authority archives, and, the exploration of the impact of documents in everyday life. Contributors include: Mary Clark (Dublin City Library), Lisa Collins (UCD), Michelle Cooney (Christian Brothers Archives, St Helen's Province), Marianne Cosgrave (Mercy Congregational Archives), Clare Hackett (Guinness Archive), Charles Horton (CBL), Donal Moore (Waterford City Council), Colum O'Riordan (Irish Architectural Archives), Joanne Rothwell (Waterford County Council), and David Sheehy, (Archdiocese of Dublin Archives Service).

Table of Contents

Digitisation : opportunities or compromises?	p. 15
The curatorship of medieval and early modern manuscripts : a Dublin case-study	p. 28
UCD archives user survey : a snapshot of the expectation and behaviour of users of archives in a university setting	p. 37
Education programme development : new roles, responsibilities and opportunities for the archivist following the introduction of the revised history syllabus	p. 58
The preservation and management of the archives of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, 1850-2005	p. 76
From principles to practice : how do codes of ethics translate?	p. 88
New beginnings : archival developments in Waterford city, Waterford county and Wexford county councils	p. 100
Ways of seeing : outreach in corporate archives	p. 115
From Louisburgh to Ladismith : archives in Ireland and South Africa in a century of conflict and change	p. 127
From time immemorial : archives from the ancient world in the Chester Beatty Library	p. 147
Private thoughts, public records? : the publication of the Lindsay Anderson diaries	p. 155
Fr John MacErlean SJ and the development of the Irish Jesuit Archive	p. 166
Architects and their records; advice from a member of the profession to his colleagues	p. 177
Cultural genocide	p. 187
The significance of the 'humdrum elements of human existence' : an exploration of the role of records in everyday life	p. 200
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