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RR 2017/002 Encyclopedia of Archival Science Edited by Luciana Duranti and Patricia C. Franks Rowman & Littlefield Lanham, MD and London 2015 x + 454 pp. ISBN 978 0 8108 8810 4 ( print );ISBN 978 0 8108 8811 1 ( e-book) £85 $125
After retirement as a librarian, I became an archivist almost by accident, certainly by default, for volunteering to record collections at a specialist museum. The archives in the museum were already substantial and have become even more extensive in the years since I began, but there are still files of documents kept in no particular order, which I have yet to venture to examine. My former long career as a librarian gave me useful background knowledge, not least because I encouraged a special collections librarian on my staff to follow a diploma course in archives and she passed on to me in discussions many of the fundamentals of the matters she was studying. Although arriving rather late in my own processes, this volume has proved a useful...