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- Title
Everything Old Is New Again: The Evolution of Generic Appraisal at Library and Archives Canada.
- Authors
GIESBRECHT, REBECCA; SMITH, JENNA MURDOCK
- Abstract
The concept of "generic appraisal" was part of the original conceptualization of macroappraisal as it was developed at the then National Archives of Canada (now Library and Archives Canada) in 1990. This hypothesis, that cross-institutional functional patterns and areas where institutions shared common characteristics could support its implementation, was never fully put into practice. In response to a new focus on recordkeeping in 2009, archivists developed tools based on common activities performed by many or all government institutions. This enabled a re-examination of generic appraisal in more depth. Over the next five years, generic appraisal grew to inform and fully support the new approach to government records disposition at Library and Archives Canada (LAC). This article provides an account of the evolution of generic appraisal at LAC, and of how it facilitated the redesign of a disposition program that puts macroappraisal theory into practice in a more effective, efficient, and accountable manner.
- Subjects
CANADA; LIBRARY administration; ARCHIVE acquisitions; LIBRARIES
- Publication
Archivaria, 2017, Issue 84, p37
- ISSN
0318-6954
- Publication type
Article