Conceptualizing 21st-Century Archives Now Available in Print and PDF!

In Conceptualizing 21st-Century Archives, author Anne J. Gilliland explores the shifts and divergences in archival discourse that technological developments have necessitated, facilitated, or inspired. Gilliland addresses the lessons the archival and recordkeeping fields can learn from their evolution about ideas tried and abandoned; which ideas are truly new, and which continue to hold good, regardless of technological shifts; and the ways in which archivists need to expand their thinking and practices to fulfill their global and local—“glocal”—roles. Gilliland ultimately constructs a picture of how archives arrived in the 21st century and suggests where they might be going in the foreseeable future. The print and PDF versions of this fascinating title are now available in the SAA Bookstore.