<P> Seamus Ross has argued a case for adapting established principles and theories of archival provenance to the field of modern digital preservation and curation . </P> <P> Provenance is also the title of the journal published by the Society of Georgia Archivists . </P> <P> In the case of books, the study of provenance refers to the study of the ownership of individual copies of books . It is usually extended to include study of the circumstances in which individual copies of books have changed ownership, and of evidence left in books that shows how readers interacted with them . </P> <P> Provenance studies may shed light on the books themselves, providing evidence of the role particular titles have played in social, intellectual and literary history . Such studies may also add to our knowledge of particular owners of books . For instance, looking at the books owned by a writer may help to show which works influenced him or her . </P>

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