Contents
About the contributors
Introduction
David Thomas and Michael Moss
1 Valuing oral and written texts in Malawi
Paul Lihoma
2 Building an evidenced based culture for documentary heritage
collections
Nancy Bell, Michael Moss and David Thomas
3 Value in fragments: an Australian perspective on
re-contextualisation
Helen Morgan, Cate O’Neill, Nikki Henningham, Gavan McCarthy and
Annelie De Villiers
4 Trusting the records: the Hillsborough football disaster 1989
and the work of the Independent Panel 2010–12
Sarah Tyacke
5 Sharing history: coupling the archives and history compilation
in Japan
Sachiko Morimoto
6 Memories of the future: archives in India
Swapan Chakravorty
7 Business archives in Hong Kong: an overview
Pui-Tak Lee
8 The search for Ithaca? The value of personal memory in the
archive of the digital age
Louise Craven
9 The commercialisation of archives: the impact of online family
history sites in the UK
David Thomas and Michael Moss
10 A search for truthiness: archival research in a post-truth
world
Daniel German
Index
Michael Moss is Professor of Archival Science at the
University of Northumbria. Previously, he was research professor in
archival studies in the Humanities Advanced Technology and
Information Institute at the University of Glasgow, where he
directed the Information Management and Preservation MSc programme.
He is a non-executive director of the National Records of Scotland
and until 2014 a member of the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Council
on National Archives and Records. In 2015 he was Miegunyah
distinguished fellow at the University of Melbourne.
David Thomas is a Visiting Professor at the University of
Northumbria. Previously, he worked at the National Archives where
he was Director of Technology and was responsible for digital
preservation and for providing access to digital material.
'Comprised of ten impressively informative articles by experts on
their subjects, Do Archives Have Value? discusses the various
valuation methods available, including contingent valuation,
willingness to pay and value chain, and assesses their suitability
for use by archives and special collections...A unique, seminal,
and expressly organized and presented work of collective
scholarship, Do Archives Have Value? will prove to be an essential,
core addition to professional, college, and university "Library
Science & Technology" collections and supplemental curriculum
studies lists.'
*Midwest Book Review*
'The question the editors of this collection of essays ask seems
beguilingly simple: do archives have indeed value? But as Moss and
Thomas point out in their introduction to the diverse contributions
from across the world, the answer is not as straightforward as it
seems.'
*InforPro*
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