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This book gives the reader not just a comprehensive overview of key archival writers, but also the essence and overview of streams in archival theory. It is an excellent entrance to key archival literature - a lexicon to use while writing your thesis or article. -- Tove Engvall, Lecturer in Archives and Information Science, Mid Sweden University This remarkable Encyclopedia places the most important archival writers on both sides on the Atlantic at your fingertips. It significantly facilitates the understanding of the challenges archivists have met over the last five centuries. Students will get easy access to archival theories and methods in the context in which they were developed, while archival professionals will discover facts and aspects of archival knowledge previously unknown to them. -- Michel Pfeiffer, Professor, University of Applied Sciences HTW Chur

This book gives the reader not just a comprehensive overview of key archival writers, but also the essence and overview of streams in archival theory. It is an excellent entrance to key archival literature - a lexicon to use while writing your thesis or article. -- Tove Engvall, Lecturer in Archives and Information Science, Mid Sweden University

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Encyclopedia of Archival Writers, 1515-2015 was developed under the editorship of Dr. Luciana Duranti, professor in the iSchool (Library, Archival and Information Studies) at the University of British Columbia, and Dr. Patricia C. Franks, professor and program coordinator for the Master of Archives and Records Administration program in the School of Information at San José State University. Luciana Duranti is a Professor of archival theory, diplomatics, and the preservation of digital records in the master’s and doctoral archival studies programs of the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada, and the Director of the UBC Centre for the International Study of Contemporary Records and Archives (CISCRA), as well as the InterPARES Research Project (1998-2019). Patricia C. Franks is a certified archivist, certified records manager, and information governance professional. She is a professor and coordinator of the Master of Archives and Records Administration degree program in the School of Information at San Jose State University. She is co-editor, with Luciana Duranti, of the Encyclopedia of Archival Science (2015), co-editor, with Anthony Bernier, of the International Director of National Archives (2018) and author of Records and Information Management, (2013, 2018).

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