Archival Perspective: Archival Life, Archival Business, World Archives

Author: Liu Guoneng
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: "The Archive," as the name implies, is a perspective on archival affairs, a monograph that narrates modern and contemporary archival figures, elaborates on archival practices and global archival work, as well as academic viewpoints. The book is divided into three parts.
Part 1: Archival Lives: Tells the stories of representative figures in history who rescued, protected, and worked in archival roles, archival education, and archival leadership; leaders of the Communist Party of China who cared about and valued archival work, as well as staff from underground party libraries; pioneers, scholars, and representatives from various fields in the archival cause of New China.
Part 2: Archival Practices: Discusses document processing; archival management and archival information management; the survey of archives (population, geographical names, real estate surveys, agricultural zoning, land resource surveys) and their management; archival room and archive work, as well as the development and utilization of archival resources; archival work in agriculture, rural areas, and townships; archival work in enterprises; archival practice theories and academic issues, etc.
Part 3: Global Archives: Describes the author's observations on archival practices in some countries in Asia, Europe, America, and Oceania; the 13th International Archives Congress, as well as excerpts of academic papers. The book's features are: it tells both people and stories; it covers both China and foreign countries; it includes both theory and practical practices.