Analyzing how reference archivists write about users: a historical review of the literature in North America
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Hebert, Rhea M.
- Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
- Abstract
- The goal of this paper is to present a historical literature review and analysis of archival reference literature in order to identify what, if any, assumptions the literature suggests that archivists hold, and have held in the past, about users. In order to determine implicit as well as explicit attitudes about users, attention has been focused on words used to refer to users as well as words used to describe users and their uses of archival materials. The paper focuses on North America archival literature from 1938 to 2009. This analysis is an attempt to raise awareness of assumptions archivists have or have had about users in order to facilitate assessment of reference policies and services.
- Date of publication
- April 2010
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- In Copyright
- Advisor
- Lee, Christopher
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- 84
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- abb1808a-3405-4d7b-866b-f35807dc08b2
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- Open access
- Date uploaded
- March 6, 2013
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