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• W636128587 abstract "On page three of From Polders to Postmodernism: A Concise History of Archival Theory, John Ridener declares his subject to be “archival theory as embodied by appraisal theory.” Since the functions of archives extend considerably beyond appraisal, this is surely an unnecessary and selfimposed limitation. And since Ridener’s history reaches back roughly one hundred years, to the publication of the Dutch Manual for the Arrangement and Description of Archives (1898), it is unclear whether Ridener’s period of study is too short or too long: too short because he has neglected the long history of archival selection that predates the Manual, or too long because it is not until Schellenberg that appraisal per se became the principal means of effecting archival selection. Although earlier eras did not rely on appraisal to reduce abundant information for archival retention, they nonetheless preserved only a partial selection of the available records. In collapsing the distinction between appraisal and other forms of archival selection, Ridener’s narrative becomes somewhat teleological. Nonetheless, Ridener’s analysis is more nuanced than his overly bold topic statement would seem to allow, and his book is an ably guided tour through a century of thought on archival selection. Samuel Muller, Johan Feith, and Robert Fruin, the authors of the Dutch Manual often have been characterized as promoting the retention of all documentary traces. The careful reader of the Manual will find this representation unsatisfactory, for its primary focus is on standardizing arrangement and description – though standardization may be the wrong term for a work that, as noted by Ridener, defends both “centralized and localized practice” (p. 29). According to the Manual, the solution to the problem of overabundant documentation was to exclude materials through archival arrangement. Any records that were not in the custody of the creator as part of the creator’s official records were to be excluded from the archive. In passages from the Manual not quoted by Ridener, the Dutch authors go to great lengths to demonstrate that personal papers, even those of a key official, do not belong in the archive. Though they did not have to deal with the same degree of information abundance as later periods, it is evident that Muller, Feith, and Fruin were keen to discern and render accessible the most valuable holdings within Dutch archives – a point that Ridener emphasizes in his analysis. Similarly, Sir Hilary Jenkinson is mischaracterized by Ridener and in some archival literature, as a bureaucrat who advocated a passive role for archivists, accessioning whatever documentary traces creators choose to hand over. Jenkinson’s theory of the record demands that we think otherwise. Jenkinson requires archivists to be gatekeepers who carefully sift documen144 Archivaria 71" @default.
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