In 1987, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission funded a two-year project designed to improve religious archives in the New York metropolitan area. The Archivists of Religious Institutions, a regional group responsible for administering the grant, developed a coordinated program of workshops, consultation reports, and cooperative endeavors in order to address the peculiar problems of smaller repositories. The results illustrate the difficulties of interinstitutional cooperation, weaknesses in traditional archival training methods, and the profession's failure to address realistically the nature, role, importance, and uniqueness of smaller archives.
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July 01 1992
Smaller Archives and Professional Development: Some New York Stories
Elizabeth Yakel
Elizabeth Yakel
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University of Michigan
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The American Archivist (1992) 55 (3): 474–482.
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Peter Wosh, Elizabeth Yakel; Smaller Archives and Professional Development: Some New York Stories. The American Archivist 1 July 1992; 55 (3): 474–482. doi: https://doi.org/10.17723/aarc.55.3.rm3162605j570413
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