By Trevor Livelton
Livelton considers the character of public files from an archival point of view, reading suggestions instead of the day-by-day realities with which public documents archivists deal. notwithstanding, his conscientiously reasoned conclusions offer a powerful beginning on which principled instead of ad hoc judgements may be made, and so might be of curiosity to academics, scholars and practitioners of archival science.
The writer offers a basic or theoretical view of public files as records made or got and preserved by means of the sovereign or its brokers within the behavior of governance. This research is illustrated through numerous examples, together with a dialogue of freedom of information.
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