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Abstract: In this article author makes an attempt for periodization of the appraisal theory development in the United States of America. Author identifies 1930-th as a period of European appraisal concept domination; 1930-1950-th as the beginning of peculiar theory design; 1950-1960-th as generalization of previous researches of prominent American scientists T.Shellenberg and P.Levinson, implementation of the concepts of “primary” and “secondary”, “evidential” and “informational” value __of the document; 1960-1970-th as a period of criticism of T.Shellenberg ideas and the beginning of readable and audio, video documents appraise; 1980-1990-th as the revision of appraisal theory __and the re-appraisal idea of L. Rapport for American achieves; 1990-th-present as the creation of new appraisal concepts and the development of a new direction in electronic documents appraisal process. Author pays attention to the concepts proposed by M.С. Norton, P. Brooks, E. Leahy and P. Bauer in 1930-1950-th. Keywords: appraisal theory in the U.S., appraisal periodization in the U.S., “evidential” value of a document, documents for permanent preservation selection in the United States, authorization for documents destruction in the U.S., financial criterion for documents evaluation in the U.S., Margaret Cross Norton. Cite: |
