'While Yeo accepts that information might serve as an affordance of a record, he holds that a record is more immediately a tangible part of a social fabric of rights and obligations than information, and less a physical byproduct of empiricism to be manipulated, controlled, and corrected than data. The result is a compelling defense of the record against the encroaching rhetoric of an informational paradigm that values views and clicks over authenticity and understanding.' -- Caitlin Rizzo * Taylor & Francis Online * 'Yeo crafts a comprehensive guide to record management in the modern digital and data-driven world, focusing on record-keeping practices ... and how they are changing...Records, Information and Data is the product of extensive research: each chapter includes endnotes and references. Recommended for undergraduates and graduate students interested in records or information management.'- K. J. Whitehair, independent scholar, CHOICE * CHOICE * 'Yeo argues that ... dilution of records and archives into the surging ocean of information (and its accompanying data deluge) is unwarranted. ... Borrowing from the theory of speech acts developed by John Austin and John Searle, Yeo characterizes records as performative: they help us do a variety of things. Records are actions by other means, as much instruments as they are representations. ... Yeos book provides a lucid argument for the need for records managers and archivists to resist the song of the information sirens. Philosophically grounded and analytically clear, Records, Information and Data offers a view of records capable of acting as the foundation for a renewed archival discipline for the twenty-first century.'- Juan Ilerbaig, University of Toronto, American Archivist -- The American Archivist * American Archivist * "How well do we understand the similarities and differences between records, information, and data? ... Have we adequately contemplated where we are going in our rush to adopt the emperors new clothes of information management? What are the consequences of downplaying ... those unique skills that records professionals must have? ... Can the making and keeping of records continue to be regarded as a separate, distinct, and worthy endeavour in the digital age? Geoffrey Yeo ... addresses these questions in this timely book, which should be read by all records professionals. ... His language is clear, dispassionate, and direct. ... Make no mistake: records matter. They are not some quaint and archaic subset of the modern, thrusting world of data or information. They matter because they play a unique and vital role in society...Yeos book... is a reassertion and rearticulation of our enduring core purpose." Adrian Cunningham, formerly Queensland State Archives, Archivaria -- Adrian Cunningham * Archivaria *
