| Acknowledgements | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| An overview of appraisal: What is it? Who does it? Why is it done? | p. 7 |
| Appraisal--choosing information to keep | p. 7 |
| Reasons for choice in personal appraisal | p. 10 |
| Physical person and corporate person | p. 12 |
| Perspectives of the organization or group | p. 12 |
| Why appraise? | p. 14 |
| What factors shape appraisal in organizations? | p. 15 |
| Information systems and records systems | p. 17 |
| Professionals who need to be knowledgeable about appraisal | p. 18 |
| Appraisal and archival appraisal in modern organizations--purpose, participants, roles and responsibilities | p. 23 |
| Managing records in an organization | p. 23 |
| Appraisal as an organizing concept for general management | p. 28 |
| Perspective on appraisal in an organization: the importance of points of view | p. 30 |
| Role of the archivist in records appraisal in a company or other types of organization | p. 32 |
| Archival programmes and institutions in their unique role | p. 34 |
| Appraisal from the perspective of archival repositories | p. 35 |
| Appraisal as a function in an archive programme or institution | p. 37 |
| The many views on appraisal in archive programmes | p. 41 |
| Appraisal in the economy of archives | p. 41 |
| Orienting appraisal to its role in an archive programme | p. 42 |
| The special relation of appraisal to acquisitions | p. 44 |
| Acquisition in archives programmes and institutions--dependence and independence | p. 47 |
| Passive versus active implementation of acquisition mandates | p. 48 |
| Relationship to source affects appraisal | p. 49 |
| Coherent schemes to relate acquisition to appraisal | p. 51 |
| Appraisal in an electronic environment | p. 54 |
| Appraisal as test | p. 55 |
| Archival appraisal briefly reviewed in historical context | p. 59 |
| Appraisal in modern times | p. 60 |
| The archivist as advisor and preserver | p. 61 |
| Registries, decentralized records keeping and bureaucracies | p. 63 |
| The independent role of the archives | p. 65 |
| Archives as a reflection of society | p. 67 |
| Appraisal as a key archival activity, its links to acquisition, and the emergence of functional analysis and memory | p. 70 |
| Electronic records revitalize interest in appraisal | p. 74 |
| Practicing appraisal--common grounds and common problems | p. 81 |
| Agreements about appraisal | p. 81 |
| Important to develop and then articulate a theory of appraisal | p. 82 |
| A systematic, archive-directed appraisal is favoured as a strategy | p. 86 |
| Tools should be used and developed further as needed | p. 92 |
| Appraisal based solely on locating values in specific records is largely unworkable | p. 94 |
| Appraisal shaped by a group may better reflect values and support more rational, co-operative acquisitions | p. 96 |
| Re-appraisal, retro-appraisal, the idea of continuing appraisal, and collection assessment/self-knowledge | p. 98 |
| Locating appraisal in the contexts of situation--the constraints on an ideal | p. 99 |
| The archivist's internal context of appraisal work | p. 103 |
| The "situateness" of appraisal | p. 106 |
| Architecture of responsible appraisal--a foundation and a framework | p. 111 |
| Our knowledge of appraisal | p. 111 |
| The components of an appraisal architecture sketched | p. 115 |
| Procedures express professional competence and obligations | p. 121 |
| Benefits of procedure | p. 122 |
| Choosing and accounting for choices | p. 126 |
| A brief general summary | p. 129 |
| Living with ambiguity and qualitative judgements | p. 129 |
| The common ground upon which appraisal rests--records and human actions | p. 134 |
| An introductory study guide | p. 139 |
| Appendixes | p. 161 |
| Some definitions with explanations | p. 161 |
| Archival appraisal and the preservation of audio-visual records at Concordia University Archives, Montreal, Canada | p. 165 |
| Selection for reformatting | p. 182 |
| Sources of information | p. 184 |
| CCA Acquisitions Planning Process (CCA Building a National Acquisition Strategy (1995) Adapted with modifications from James Lambert and Louis Cote "Les outils de travail en archivistique: la politique d'acquisition: pourquoi, comment, criteres et examples" Archives 23/3 (Winter 1992): 7) | p. 187 |
| Mandate of City of Toronto Archives. City of Toronto Bylaw No. 458-1999 "To authorize the acquisition of non-government records and collections of documents of historical value or interest for the City of Toronto Archives" | p. 189 |
| Acquisition policy and procedures, appraisal criteria, and glossary of terms for the City of Toronto Archives | p. 193 |
| Appraisal report form: City of Toronto Archives | p. 213 |
| Index | p. 219 |
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