"There has never been a more interesting time to be an archivist." So asserts Jennie Hill in her introduction to this splendid collection of essays. Support for that somewhat "grand claim" is, as she explains, offered explicitly in the theme of her introduction and implicitly in the reflection of almost all the authors in their individual essays. According to Hill, "archives are moving from a profession predicated on the unquestioning repetition of routine towards a more self-aware, self-reflexive professional outlook, which can only be of benefit to the archival profession" and, equally, to new generations and types of users (p. xvii). I readily applaud Hill's comment; it presents in one sentence what is, to my mind, the single most fundamental change in our profession in recent decades.
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