Imagining Archives Essays and Reflections

by Cook, Terry; Dodds, Gordon

• ISBN13: 9780810847712
• ISBN10: 081084771X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-05
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Summary

Hugh A. Taylor is one of the most important thinkers in the English-speaking world of archives. A retired civil servant and archival educator, he was named to the prestigious Order of Canada, his nation's highest civilian award. The fifteen essays in this volume are presented in chronological order so that readers may appreciate the broadening evolution and rich interconnections in Taylor's thought as these occurred over more than three decades. These essays link archives to social life and contemporary ideas. Also included are two original essays by editors Terry Cook and Gordon Dodds.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Part 1 About Hugh A. Taylor
1 Hugh Taylor: The Far-Away Archivist	3	(13)
Gordon Dodds
2 Hugh Taylor: Imagining Archives	16	(15)
Terry Cook
Part 2 Essays and Reflections by Hugh A. Taylor
3 Archives in Britain and Canada: Impressions of an Immigrant (1969)	31	(13)
4 Administrative History: An Archivist's Need (1970)	44	(8)
5 The Discipline of History and the Education of the Archivist (1977)	52	(11)
6 The Media of Record: Archives in the Wake of McLuhan (1978)	63	(12)
7 Documentary Art and the Role of the Archivist (1979)	75	(15)
8 Information Ecology and the Archives of the 1980's (1984)	90	(17)
9 Transformation in the Archives: Technological Adjustment or Paradigm Shift? (1987-1988)	107	(24)
10 "My Very Act and Deed": Some Reflections on the Role of Textual Records in the Conduct of Affairs (1988)	131	(18)
11 Towards the New Archivist: The Integrated Professional (1988)	149	(13)
12 The Totemic Universe: Appraising the Documentary Future (1990)	162	(11)
13 Chip Monks at the Gate: The Impact of Technology on Archives, Libraries, and the User (1991-1992)	173	(11)
14 Opening Address to the "Documents That Move and Speak" Symposium (1992)	184	(14)
15 Recycling the Past: The Archivist in the Age of Ecology (1993)	198	(15)
16 A Life in Archives: Retrospect and Prospect (1993)	213	(13)
17 The Archivist, the Letter, and the Spirit (1997)	226	(19)
Afterword: On Reflection and Imagination	245	(8)
About Hugh A. Taylor	253	(1)
About the Editors	254