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Faced with documents in quantities never before encountered in human history, many American archivists have a great deal of trouble believing that losing a few stray pieces of paper would truly matter. Indeed many American archivists might be willing to

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Faced with documents in quantities never before encountered in human history, many American archivists have a great deal of trouble believing that losing a few stray pieces of paper would truly matter. Indeed many American archivists might be willing to stand Jenkinson's dictum on its head, arguing that in nine cases out of ten weeding excess documents from a file may well make the inter-relationships clearer.

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Boles and Greene 1996

A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology