No Innocent Deposits

The public increase of interest in the past has not necessarily brought with it a greater understanding about how archives are formed. To this end, Richard Cox takes a serious look at archival repositories and collections. Cox suggests that archives do not just happen, but are consciously shaped (and sometimes distorted) by archivists, the creators of records, and other individuals and institutions. In this series of essays, Cox offers archivists rare insight into the fundamentals of appraisal, and historians and other users of archives the opportunity to appreciate the collections they all too often take for granted.Additional ISBNs: 141750370X, 1283600943, 9781417503704, 9781283600941No Innocent Deposits: Forming Archives by Rethinking Appraisal is written by Richard J. Cox and published by Scarecrow Press. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for No Innocent Deposits are 9781417503704, 141750370X and the print ISBNs are 9780810848962, 0810848961.