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Motion Picture Film As A Government Record: Framing Films Within Archival Theory And Preparing For The Digital Future, Heidi Holmstrom
Motion Picture Film As A Government Record: Framing Films Within Archival Theory And Preparing For The Digital Future, Heidi Holmstrom
WWU Graduate School Collection
Governments have created and used motion picture films since soon after their invention, but government archivists have an uneasy relationship with films. Historically, the traditional archival literature has overlooked films in favor of a focus on textual records, while the film archive literature is unconcerned with the archival concept of the record. To define the scope of the problem, this thesis demonstrates the paucity of archival literature addressing motion picture film as a government record. Moving forward, motion pictures are examined through a lens of archival theory and set in their rightful place among other formats of government records. It …
Avenues Of Mutual Respect: Opening Communication And Understanding Between Native Americans And Archivists, Cara S. Bertram
Avenues Of Mutual Respect: Opening Communication And Understanding Between Native Americans And Archivists, Cara S. Bertram
WWU Graduate School Collection
The Protocols for Native American Archival Materials have called upon archivists to acknowledge and respect Native Americans' needs for privacy and control over their culture. While many archivists have protested against the restriction of Native American archival materials, the morals and ethics within the profession are not far from the needs of Native communities. This thesis will examine imperial archive, archival theory, current copyright laws, writings on archival ethics, and case studies of archives and Native communities. This investigation will demonstrate the practicality and application of the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials, and its importance to the archival profession …
Business Archives And Web 2.0: Increasing Archival Access And Making The Archives And Asset, Doug Mann
Business Archives And Web 2.0: Increasing Archival Access And Making The Archives And Asset, Doug Mann
WWU Graduate School Collection
This thesis explores the ways business archives can use Web 2.0 applications for both internal and external archival processes. As corporate archives create websites and in some cases blogs and other Web 2.0 applications (Facebook and Flickr pages), they have the opportunity to increase access to their holdings, but they also risk becoming a potential liability to the corporation through privacy and copyright lawsuits, as well as accidental divulgence of company secrets or publication of materials that are then used to create a bad image of the corporation. This thesis questions whether business archives can utilize Web 2.0 applications to …
No Dust In Cyberspace?: The Effects Of Internet Technology On Perceptions Of Archives, Caitlin Patterson
No Dust In Cyberspace?: The Effects Of Internet Technology On Perceptions Of Archives, Caitlin Patterson
WWU Graduate School Collection
Drawing on research into digital technologies and their effects on society and archives, as well as research on the public image of archives, this thesis examines whether technological changes, specifically the Internet, have had any effects on public perceptions of archives and if so to determine the nature of those effects. It relies on a survey to measure possible effects of Internet technology on perceptions of archives. Findings suggest that there are a number of ways in which the Internet may be affecting perceptions of archives, including prompting both increased expectations for the provision of digital information and materials and …