Michael Moss is Professor of Archival Science at the University of Northumbria. Previously, he was research professor in archival studies in the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute at the University of Glasgow, where he directed the Information Management and Preservation MSc programme. He is a non-executive director of the National Records of Scotland and until 2014 a member of the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Council on National Archives and Records. In 2015 he was Miegunyah distinguished fellow at the University of Melbourne. David Thomas is a Visiting Professor at the University of Northumbria. Previously, he worked at the National Archives where he was Director of Technology and was responsible for digital preservation and for providing access to digital material.

'Comprised of ten impressively informative articles by experts on their subjects, Do Archives Have Value? discusses the various valuation methods available, including contingent valuation, willingness to pay and value chain, and assesses their suitability for use by archives and special collections...A unique, seminal, and expressly organized and presented work of collective scholarship, Do Archives Have Value? will prove to be an essential, core addition to professional, college, and university "Library Science & Technology" collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists.'

• ContentsAbout the contributorsIntroductionDavid Thomas and Michael Moss1 Valuing oral and written texts in MalawiPaul Lihoma2 Building an evidenced based culture for documentary heritage collections Nancy Bell, Michael Moss and David Thomas3 Value in fragments: an Australian perspective on re-contextualisationHelen Morgan, Cate O’Neill, Nikki Henningham, Gavan McCarthy and Annelie De Villiers4 Trusting the records: the Hillsborough football disaster 1989 and the work of the Independent Panel 2010–12Sarah Tyacke5 Sharing history: coupling the archives and history compilation in Japan Sachiko Morimoto6 Memories of the future: archives in India Swapan Chakravorty7 Business archives in Hong Kong: an overview Pui-Tak Lee8 The search for Ithaca? The value of personal memory in the archive of the digital ageLouise Craven9 The commercialisation of archives: the impact of online family history sites in the UKDavid Thomas and Michael Moss10 A search for truthiness: archival research in a post-truth world Daniel GermanIndex

Michael Moss is Professor of Archival Science at the University of Northumbria. Previously, he was research professor in archival studies in the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute at the University of Glasgow, where he directed the Information Management and Preservation MSc programme. He is a non-executive director of the National Records of Scotland and until 2014 a member of the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Council on National Archives and Records. In 2015 he was Miegunyah distinguished fellow at the University of Melbourne. David Thomas is a Visiting Professor at the University of Northumbria. Previously, he worked at the National Archives where he was Director of Technology and was responsible for digital preservation and for providing access to digital material.

'Comprised of ten impressively informative articles by experts on their subjects, Do Archives Have Value? discusses the various valuation methods available, including contingent valuation, willingness to pay and value chain, and assesses their suitability for use by archives and special collections...A unique, seminal, and expressly organized and presented work of collective scholarship, Do Archives Have Value? will prove to be an essential, core addition to professional, college, and university "Library Science & Technology" collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists.'

• ContentsAbout the contributorsIntroductionDavid Thomas and Michael Moss1 Valuing oral and written texts in MalawiPaul Lihoma2 Building an evidenced based culture for documentary heritage collections Nancy Bell, Michael Moss and David Thomas3 Value in fragments: an Australian perspective on re-contextualisationHelen Morgan, Cate O’Neill, Nikki Henningham, Gavan McCarthy and Annelie De Villiers4 Trusting the records: the Hillsborough football disaster 1989 and the work of the Independent Panel 2010–12Sarah Tyacke5 Sharing history: coupling the archives and history compilation in Japan Sachiko Morimoto6 Memories of the future: archives in India Swapan Chakravorty7 Business archives in Hong Kong: an overview Pui-Tak Lee8 The search for Ithaca? The value of personal memory in the archive of the digital ageLouise Craven9 The commercialisation of archives: the impact of online family history sites in the UKDavid Thomas and Michael Moss10 A search for truthiness: archival research in a post-truth world Daniel GermanIndex

Michael Moss is Professor of Archival Science at the University of Northumbria. Previously, he was research professor in archival studies in the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute at the University of Glasgow, where he directed the Information Management and Preservation MSc programme. He is a non-executive director of the National Records of Scotland and until 2014 a member of the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Council on National Archives and Records. In 2015 he was Miegunyah distinguished fellow at the University of Melbourne. David Thomas is a Visiting Professor at the University of Northumbria. Previously, he worked at the National Archives where he was Director of Technology and was responsible for digital preservation and for providing access to digital material.

'Comprised of ten impressively informative articles by experts on their subjects, Do Archives Have Value? discusses the various valuation methods available, including contingent valuation, willingness to pay and value chain, and assesses their suitability for use by archives and special collections...A unique, seminal, and expressly organized and presented work of collective scholarship, Do Archives Have Value? will prove to be an essential, core addition to professional, college, and university "Library Science & Technology" collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists.'

• ContentsAbout the contributorsIntroductionDavid Thomas and Michael Moss1 Valuing oral and written texts in MalawiPaul Lihoma2 Building an evidenced based culture for documentary heritage collections Nancy Bell, Michael Moss and David Thomas3 Value in fragments: an Australian perspective on re-contextualisationHelen Morgan, Cate O’Neill, Nikki Henningham, Gavan McCarthy and Annelie De Villiers4 Trusting the records: the Hillsborough football disaster 1989 and the work of the Independent Panel 2010–12Sarah Tyacke5 Sharing history: coupling the archives and history compilation in Japan Sachiko Morimoto6 Memories of the future: archives in India Swapan Chakravorty7 Business archives in Hong Kong: an overview Pui-Tak Lee8 The search for Ithaca? The value of personal memory in the archive of the digital ageLouise Craven9 The commercialisation of archives: the impact of online family history sites in the UKDavid Thomas and Michael Moss10 A search for truthiness: archival research in a post-truth world Daniel GermanIndex