Memory and Records
Memory and Records Terry Cook’s essays discuss the relevance, importance and evolution of The Archivist throughout the last two centuries and stepping into the dawning of the 21 st century. While both essays raise important p oints and questions – fr om who creates history, who stores and catalogues history, and even brushing up on what history is (documents, catalogues, oral histories, etc.), as well as discussing the evolution of ethics for archivists – there is a growth in discussion between the different essays. Cook’s essays touch on the flexibility of Archivists and the meaning of the title through the last two centuries, discussing the theorists in the different fields in Western Archivist theory and giving readers examples of the theories put to use in the fields. The early rigidity of the supposed responsibilities gives way to a modern day flexibility which acknowledges that history is complicated and messy, what was once not considered record of ‘evidence’...