记录现代社会与档案鉴定

Documenting Modern Society and Archival Appraisal

档案工作者是现代社会的记录者,他们挑选并保存历史事件和社会思想的凭证信息,并由此掌握着过去。海伦.塞缪尔斯提出的文献记录战略深刻影响了北美的档案思想和鉴定方法,启发了许多档案理论家和实践者去反思和探讨一个重要的主题:档案工作者怎样以更适合21世纪的方式来记录现代社会和掌握过去。

As archivists document modem society and its institutions, choose and preserve recorded evidence of past precedents and social ideas, they control the past. Helen Samuels＇s documentation strategies made a significant influence on North American archival thinking and especially on archival appraisal, having in- spired her fellow archivists to rethink and address an important theme： how, in documenting modem soci- eties and their institutions, the archivist＇s control of the past may be transformed in ways more appropriate for our twenty-first-century world.