No Innocent Deposits: Forming Archives by

Cox offers archivists rare insight into the fundamentals of appraisal, and historians and other users of archives the opportunity to appreciate the collections they all too often take for granted.

Richard J. Cox is professor at the School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh.

Acknowledgments

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1 Introduction: Treasures Everywhere

1

(18)

2 The End of Collecting: Toward a New Purpose for Archival Appraisal

19

(28)

3 The Archivist and Collecting: How Others Might See Archivists as Collectors

47

(40)

4 The Traditional Archival and Historical Records Program in the Digital Age: A Cautionary Tale

87

(28)

5 The Archivist and Collecting: A View from the Inside

115

(32)

6 Metascheduling: Rethinking Archival Appraisal and Records Management Scheduling

147

(18)

7 Evidence and Archives

165

(36)

8 Archives and the Digital Future

201

(30)

9 Appraisal as an Act of Memory

231

(28)

10 Archival Appraisal Alchemy

259

(36)

Index

295

(8)

About the Author

303

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