02266nam 2200397 450 991036773420332120230221091717.0(CKB)4100000010106375(NjHacI)994100000010106375(EXLCZ)99410000001010637520230221d2019 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierArchives /Lison [and three others]Minneapolis :meson press,2019.©20191 online resource (xxiii, 68 pages)In search of media3-95796-150-5 Archives have become a nexus in the wake of the digital turn. Electronic files, search engines, video sites, and media player libraries make the concepts of "archival" and "retrieval" practically synonymous with the experience of interconnected computing. Archives today are the center of much attention but few agendas. Can archives inform the redistribution of power and resources when the concept of the public library as an institution makes knowledge and culture accessible to all members of society regardless of social or economic status? This book sets out to show that archives need our active support and continuing engagement. This volume offers three distinct perspectives on the present status of archives that are at once in disagreement and solidarity with each other, from contributors whose backgrounds cut across the theory-practice divide. Is the increasing digital storage of knowledge pushing us toward a turning point in its democratization? Can archives fulfill their paradoxical potential as utopian sites in which the analog and the digital, the past and future, and remembrance and forgetting commingle? Is there a downside to the present-day impulse toward total preservation? In search of media.Archival materialsDigital librariesArchival materials.Digital libraries.025.00285Lison Andrew1278742NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910367734203321Archives3013825UNINA