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Notes on other recent publications

Notes on other recent publications :198 REVIEWS archives into functional departments is an obstacle to good archival practice. Archivists ought not to work on assembly lines but should con- struct :the whole product. This is a nice idea, quite widely adopted jn practice though sometimes for the wrong reasons. The reasons for the failure of both AACR2 and MARC in the archives area are also clearly spotted and nailed down. The study is based strictly on the history of practice in the USA itself. Even Canadians are largely excluded (Hugh Taylor's book for the ICA, Arrangement and description of .archival materials, does not appear in the bibliography), and this means that there has been no input from the French tradition. Like so much. writing by archivists on their own trade practices, the book has a moral undertone. It is a serious and scholarly contribution to the history of a branch of library and information work, butit is none the less a sermon directed at librarians. Hell fire, it implies, awaits those' who try to apply library techniques to archival description. That these techniques are indeed usually quite inappropriate, will hardly make the. sermon more palatable to readers within the library tradition, and hence to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Library History Edinburgh University Press

Notes on other recent publications

Library History , Volume 6 (6): 9 – Jan 1, 1984

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Edinburgh University Press
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Copyright © Edinburgh University Press
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0024-2306
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10.1179/lib.1984.6.6.198
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:198 REVIEWS archives into functional departments is an obstacle to good archival practice. Archivists ought not to work on assembly lines but should con- struct :the whole product. This is a nice idea, quite widely adopted jn practice though sometimes for the wrong reasons. The reasons for the failure of both AACR2 and MARC in the archives area are also clearly spotted and nailed down. The study is based strictly on the history of practice in the USA itself. Even Canadians are largely excluded (Hugh Taylor's book for the ICA, Arrangement and description of .archival materials, does not appear in the bibliography), and this means that there has been no input from the French tradition. Like so much. writing by archivists on their own trade practices, the book has a moral undertone. It is a serious and scholarly contribution to the history of a branch of library and information work, butit is none the less a sermon directed at librarians. Hell fire, it implies, awaits those' who try to apply library techniques to archival description. That these techniques are indeed usually quite inappropriate, will hardly make the. sermon more palatable to readers within the library tradition, and hence to

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Library HistoryEdinburgh University Press

Published: Jan 1, 1984

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