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Thursday, March 30, 2017

Word of the Week

This week's term: macroappraisal

macroappraisal



n. ~ an analysis of the functions of an organization to determine the relative importance of those activities and set priorities for documentation

Related Terms
functional analysis, institutional functional analysis

NoteMacroappraisal (also spelled macro-appraisal) identifies the activities and the records and is followed by microappraisal to determine which records are kept permanently.

Category
Appraisal

Cited In
Beaven, Brian P.N., “Macro-Appraisal: From Theory to Practice,” Archivaria 48 (Fall 1999): 157.

Boles, Frank, Selecting and Appraising Archives and Manuscripts (Chicago: The Society of American Archivists, 2005): 28.

Brown, Robert, “Macro-Appraisal Theory and the Context of the Public Records Creator,” Archivaria 40 (Fall 1995): 123–124.

Caron, Daniel J., and Richard Brown, “Appraising Content for Value in the New World: Establishing Expedient Documentary Presence,” The American Archivist 76:1 (Spring/Summer 2013): 160.

Cook, Terry, “Building an Archives: Appraisal Theory for Architectural Records,” The American Archivist 59:2 (Spring 1996): 142.

Lemieux, Victoria, “Applying Mintzberg’s Theories on Organizational Configuration to Archival Appraisal,” Archivaria 46 (Fall 1998): 33.


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