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Certainly recent writing on cultural institutions has seldom touched upon the powerful impact of archives and records on collective memory and human identity, unlike the role now accorded to human and natural history museums, art galleries, libraries, historical monuments, even zoos.
Archives - as records - wield power over the shape and direction of historical scholar- ship, collective memory, and national identity, over how we know ourselves as individuals, groups, and societies.
2 Maurice Halbwachs, On Collective Memory, Lewis A.
The nature of the resulting " archive" thus has serious consequences for administrative account- ability, citizen rights, collective memory, and historical knowledge, all of which are shaped- tacitly, subtly, sometimes unconsciously, yet profoundly- by the naturalized, largely invisible, and rarely questioned power of archives.
The growing literature on social or collective memory suggests the need to look anew at the archive in the light of changes in the production and preservation of documents, in the abundance of documents, in the changing media of record, and in the nature of what is documented or who is doing the documenting, as well as the need to examine the impact of these changes, in turn, on records management and its practices and on archives and its practices.
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