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When applied to written records, the word "preservation" is fraught with multiple meanings and connotations. For some archivists, preservation involves the attempt to save artifacts from physical deterioration and is synonymous with the conservation of original documents. For archivists with a contrary view, the overriding obligation is to save intellectual content through the use of surrogates. Thus the original carriers of information are seen as superfluous and consequently disposable. The practice of microfilming old newspapers and discarding the originals is one example of such preservation. On yet another level, preservation considers whether limited storage space should be allotted indefinitely to materials that are rarely consulted or whether certain items are so peripheral to current interests that they should be discarded altogether to ensure a home for more-pertinent materials.
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It can be inferred that which of the following approaches to preservation would be unacceptable to “some archivists" but acceptable to the "archivists with a contrary view" as the two groups' positions are described in the passage?
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In the context in which it appears, "obligation" most nearly means
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The passage suggests which of the following about the "fish populations"?
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The passage suggests which of the following about the decline observed in the late 1970s?
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Which of the following does the author mention as an important condition thought by border identity theorists to support their view?
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According to the passage, Kingston and the border identity theorists would be most likely to disagree over which of the following?
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Which of the following best describes the main purpose of the final sentence of the passage?
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Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
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The passage ascribes some of the impact of "institutional critique" to which of the following attributes of the artists engaged in it?
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In the context of the passage, the highlighted text serves primarily to
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