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Abraham 1999

Abraham, Terry, Archives and Entropy: The Closed System [web page]. February 1999.


Available online at http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/papers/entropy.htm. "The concept behind this paper was first presented in the course of a talk on 'Assembling and Organizing a Collection' given at a Local Records Workshop for the Washington State Historical Records Inventory Project, Bellingham, Washington, August 17, 1977. It was subsequently reworked into a publication entitled 'Entropy and archival disorder.' P