Description, calendar
and guidelines
Review of additional readings
Reviews of additional readings
from past weeks
Links to sites related
to history and computers
Links to sites related
to archives and associations
Student'sProjects
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The archivist may be an historian
or an administrator.
Should he/she be an educator?
- MARK: Outreach and dealing with the public are important aspects
of the job that are overlooked. Without support and use from the general
public the archive cannot grow and thrive. The scholarly researcher needs
to be shown how use the archive effectively and the general person off
the street that is searching their family tree needs more help. The more
the public knows about how to use the archive, the more they will be willing
to support them. Yes the archivist should be a teacher of history, and
research techniques.
- JEFF: That is probably a matter of individual capabilities and
skills. I am sure that some archivists would be wonderful educators, while
others less proficient. More abstractly, archivists have a role to play
in educating historians about their repositories as well as policy-makers
about the vital role of the agency.
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