Francis X Blouin Jr.
At a time not long ago, historians and archivists could be said to occupy a common conceptual space. In recent decades, this conceptual partnership began to diverge. On the one hand, the discipline of History has broadened the range of what questions legitimately constitute a systematic examination of the past. The boundaries that defined the province of historical scholarship, once so tightly drawn around states and institutions, were expanding. The search for validation in forming a response to those questions has pushed historians into new constructs of what constitutes a legitimate and an authoritative historical source. At the same time the world of archives and archival administration was changing in response to pressures derived from the complexities of modern life. Among those were 1) the problem of the bulk of records, 2) the challenge of finding resources for archival operations, and 3) the onslaught of new information technologies. These developments moved archival work away from a traditional focus on professional historical work. The convergence in the disciplines of History and of Archival Science once considered in full partnership has resulted in divergent conceptual frameworks for understanding historical documentation; between the evolving conceptual frameworks for historical research and those related to the efficient and practical retention of records.
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ISBN: 978-989-26-1793-0
eISBN: 978-989-26-1794-7
DOI: 10.14195/978-989-26-1794-7_23
Área: Artes e humandidades
Páginas: 367-378
Data: 2019
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