EDUCATING FILIPINO ARCHIVISTS AMIDST THE CHALLENGES OF THE 21ST CENTURY ARCHIVAL PROFESSION
As the archival profession takes off to further assert its importance in the society, it is necessary that would be archivists be equipped with the necessary understanding of the evolving archival landscape, and all other issues that go with it.
RETHINKING LIS AND ARCHIVAL EDUCATION AND PRACTICE IN THE PHILIPPINES: TAKING ON SOCIAL MEMORY AS A PARADIGM
This article discusses the concept of social memory as a paradigm for the LIS and archival education and practice in the Philippines. The author argues that the close partnership between LIS and Archival Studies in the Philippines and the shift of functions from storage to access call for a “shared” paradigm, which is at the same time socially and culturally-sensitive. It is also explored in this essay the potential of the partnership or convergence between LIS and Archival Studies in the mediation of social memory, along with the ascribed responsibility and authority to archives and libraries in rendering access and information services. In this paradigm, both the librarians and archivists are brought into a position where they possess an understated power in collecting, establishing and propagating social memory.
French film theory and criticism : a history/anthology, 1907-1939
These two volumes examine a significant but previously neglected moment in French cultural history: the emergence of French film theory and criticism before the essays of Andr Bazin. Richard Abel has devised an organizational scheme of six nearly symmetrical periods that serve to "bite into" the discursive flow of early French writing on the cinema. Each of the periods is discussed in a separate and extensive historical introduction, with convincing explications of the various concepts current at the time. In each instance, Abel goes on to provide a complementary anthology of selected texts in translation. Amounting to a portable archive, these anthologies make available a rich selection of nearly one hundred and fifty important texts, most of them never before published in English.