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Archival Preservation: Definitions for Improving Education and Training
(Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1989-06)
Archival preservation is a central management function for archives, libraries, museums, and other institutions whose purpose it is to acquire and make available cultural resources of long-term value. This article traces ...
Archival Education and the Need for Full-Time Faculty
(Society of American Archivists, 1988-07)
A healthy system of professional education has three complementary components: professional associations, practitioners in the field, and faculty in academic settings. The lack of a sufficient number of full-time faculty ...
Research in Presidential Libraries: A User Survey
(Midwest Archives Association, 1986-01)
Improved information about actual users is a key element in
developing user-responsive archival administration. The findings of a 1984
survey of researchers in four presidential libraries are summarized. Rather than
compare ...
Facts and Frameworks: An Approach to Studying the Users of Archives
(Society of American Archivists, 1986-10)
The continuing reluctance of the archival profession to develop a better understanding of users seems less a problem of will than a problem of method. The framework presented here is a first attempt to structure a comprehensive ...
The power of parallel thinking
(Elsevier, 1981-12)
A small computer model demonstrates that an appropriate organization of boundedly rational individuals can find optimal policies in an environment that is overwhelmingly complex for unorganized decision makers. The model ...
Perspectives on Archival Resources: The 1985 Census of Archival Institutions
(Society of American Archivists, 1987-04)
This article is a report on the first comprehensive survey of the resources, responsibilities, and activities of archival repositories in the United States. After placing the study in the context of past surveys of archivists ...