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What does the public want and expect from archives?Pollsters report that there is an overwhelming consensus that old things should be kept.But as Jack Jedwab reports in his background paper for this Canadian Archives Summit, people are not so sure what to make of the archives themselves as repositories of our documentary heritage.Far too many of those polled are essentially unaware of what archives do, and only a small percentage of them have knowingly engaged with an archives.The polls tell us that this is particularly true for Library and Archives Canada (LAC).There is nonetheless a lot to build on in the popular consensus about the worthiness of archival recordkeeping.Over the past decade, a group of prominent Canadian historians oversaw a project (Canadians and Their Pasts) to interview some 3,400 Canadians about their consciousness of history.They discovered that a large proportion of them integrate historical consciousness into their identities and are likely to turn to instituti
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What does the public want and expect from archives?Pollsters report that there is an overwhelming consensus that old things should be kept.But as Jack Jedwab reports in his background paper for this Canadian Archives Summit, people are not so sure what to make of the archives themselves as repositories of our documentary heritage.Far too many of those polled are essentially unaware of what archives do, and only a small percentage of them have knowingly engaged with an archives.The polls tell us that this is particularly true for Library and Archives Canada (LAC).There is nonetheless a lot to build on in the popular consensus about the worthiness of archival recordkeeping.Over the past decade, a group of prominent Canadian historians oversaw a project (Canadians and Their Pasts) to interview some 3,400 Canadians about their consciousness of history.They discovered that a large proportion of them integrate historical consciousness into their identities and are likely to turn to instituti
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