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Archives

An archive is an accumulation of historical records or the physical place they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime, and are kept to show the function of that person or organization. Professional archivists and historians generally understand archives to be records that have been naturally and necessarily generated as a product of regular legal, commercial, administrative, or social activities. ...more

Archives Books

Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression
Dust: The Archive and Cultural History (Encounters: Cultural Histories)
Arranging & Describing Archives & Manuscripts (Archival Fundamentals Series II)
Understanding Archives & Manuscripts (Archival Fundamentals Series)
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
The Allure of the Archives
An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures
The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation
The Archival Turn in Feminism: Outrage in Order
Processing the Past: Contesting Authority in History and the Archives
Archives: Principles and Practices
Archives Power: Memory, Accountability, and Social Justice
Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History
Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives: A How-To-Do-It Manual (How-To-Do-It Manuals for Libraries)
Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
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Lists

Breathe by Kristen AshleyOpen Season by Linda HowardSomebody Nice! by Raine O'TierneyRunning Hot by Jayne Ann KrentzHard Time by Cara McKenna
Romance Books about Librarians and Archivists
290 books — 90 voters
Possession by A.S. ByattThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Archive Porn
3 books — 4 voters

Records and Information Management by Patricia C. FranksBest of Both Worlds by G. Wayne CloughSpecial Collections 2.0 by Beth M. WhittakerArchive Fever by Jacques DerridaDiplomatics by Luciana Duranti
Archival Nonfiction
20 books — 2 voters
Dracula by Bram StokerThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Giver by Lois LowryThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaCloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Reading Through an Archival Lens
82 books — 31 voters

Quotes Tagged “Archives”

Sarah Beth Durst
“ How much knowledge had been lost because no one wrote it down? ”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop
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Radovan Kavický
“ Weddings are great, but they mostly end up in marriages and that is the problem. ”
― Radovan Kavický
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Videos Tagged “Archives”

The Backstory of Fostering Family History Services
The Backstory of Fostering Family History Services
Introduction - The Foulest Thing
Introduction - The Foulest Thing
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Arrangement and Description: Archivists At Large Are you an archivist, special collections librarian, researcher or scholar? Do you spend your da…more
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