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Francis X. Blouin Jr. is Director of the Bentley Historical Library and Professor in the History Department and School of Information at the University of Michigan. From 1984 to 2004 he led an effort to do a complete inventory of the archives of the Vatican

Francis X. From 1984 to 2004 he led an effort to do a complete inventory of the archives of the Vatican. He has served on the board of the Council on Library and Information Resources. William G. Rosenberg is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Michigan.

In their new book, Processing the Past: Contesting Authority in History and the Archives, Francis X. Blouin, J. Blouin, Jr. (Bentley Historical Library) and William Rosenberg (Univ. of Michigan), explore the growing divide between historians and archivists. William Rosenberg: Mainly we wanted to help historians become more informed about what archives have become and the difficult new problems archivists are now facing, and also help inform archivists about the new and interesting ways many historians are now approaching their subjects, something many archivists think they can no longer be concerned about.

by Francis X. (Author), William G. Rosenberg (Author). FXB: Professor of History and Information Sciences & Director, Bentley Library, University of Michigan.

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This book situates archives as subjects rather than places of study. Francis X. Blouin, Jr and William G. Rosenberg. For historians and those interested in history, the book explains the challenges archivists face in managing both traditional and digital documentation. It examines how archives have traditionally acquired and processed materials deemed archival and the changes wrought by the explosive growth of documents of all sorts.

Francis Blouin and William G. Rosenberg}, year {2011} . Rosenberg}, year {2011} }. Jr. Francis Blouin, William G. Introduction: On the Intersections of Archives and History PART I: ARCHIVES, HISTORY, AND THE OPENING OF THE ARCHIVAL DIVIDE Chapter 1 - Authoritative History and Authoritative Archives Chapter 2 - The Turn Away from Historical Authority in the Archives Chapter 3 - Archival Authorities and New Technologies Chapter 4 - The Turn Away from Archival Authority in History Chapter 5 - Archival Essentialism and the Archival Divide PART. II: PROCESSING THE PAST Chapter 6 - The Social Memory Proble. ONTINUE READING.

Processing the Past: Contesting Authority in History and the Archives by Dr. Rosenberg (Bill) '60 View author page View alumni profile Francis X. Oxford University Press; 2011; 272 pp. Genre: Non-fiction Category: History Additional Information - Library. Genre: Non-fiction Category: History Additional Information - Library Catalog. Amherst College 220 South Pleasant Street Amherst, MA 01002.

Processing the Past : Contesting Authority in History and the Archives. Processing the Past explores the dramatic changes taking place in historical understanding and archival management, and hence the relations between historians and archivists. by Francis X. Blouin and William G.

6 Blouin, Francis X. and Rosenberg, William . Processing the past: contesting authority in history and the archives (Oxford, 2011), p. 3. 7 Using ‘authority’, here, in the technical sense that emerged in the twentieth century

6 Blouin, Francis X. 7 Using ‘authority’, here, in the technical sense that emerged in the twentieth century. See Blouin and Rosenberg, Processing, p. 127, for a definition; as they conclude (p. 137): ‘Historicizing the nature of historical narration demands a corresponding historicizing of the essentialism of documents, as well as archival practices. 8 Critical theory appropriated the term archive in the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in Derrida's, JacquesArchive fever:. Rosenberg, "The Turn Away from Archival Authority in History," in Processing the Past: Contesting Authority in History and the Archives (2011). George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). org, Secrecy Report 2013.