| Purpose: Syllabus/Content:
This module deals with some of the most fundamental aspects of archival studies and of archives. If there were no need for the communication of information from the past to the future, it would not be necessary to record externalised knowledge, or to invent a social agency to collect evidence of transactions, make them accessible to users and preserve them. Without this social need of remembering the past, archives would never have existed in contemporary or past societies.
This module has been compiled with the aim of introducing the student to the various types of archival records, their characteristics, and potential use by archives and preservation. |
