TY - BOOK AU - Cox, Richard J. TI - Closing an era: historical perspectives on modern archives and r ecords management SN - 0313313318 (alk. paper) U1 - 025/.0068 21 PY - 2000/// CY - Westport, Conn. PB - Greenwood Press KW - Archives KW - United States KW - Administration KW - History KW - Records KW - United states KW - Management KW - Archivists N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: 1. Mythic Modem Origins and the His tory of Records Management -- 2. The Birth of Records Management: The A ncients to the Dawn of -- the Industrial Age -- 3. The Birth of the Mod em Records Regime and Profession -- 4. Building a National System of Re cords Administration -- 5. Shifting Strategies in Appraising, Schedulin g, and Maintaining -- Records -- 6. Archives, Records, and Memory -- 7. Educating Records Professionals in a Hostile Age -- 8. Archives, Docum entary Editing, and the Quarrel about -- Preserving Our Documentary Her itage -- 9 History's Future: American Archivists, Cyberculture, and Sta sis -- Index ER -