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The Historical Profession and Archival Education

http://www.historians.org/perspectives/issues/2007/0705/0705vie2.cfm

By Joseph M. Turrini

Abstract:

Archivists, historians, and librarians have for decades disagreed about the appropriate placement of archival education in the university. Whether archivists should be trained in history departments or in library science schools has been a source of significant conflict and acrimonious debate. This unsettled quarrel resulted in two different educational tracks that persist to this day. Changes in the archival profession and in the academy, however, now appear to be accomplishing what the professional debates failed to achieve. Recent developments suggest that the archival profession, at one time dominated by history department graduates, will be staffed by library science graduates in the near future. Given the current trends, a more relevant question might now be: Can history-based archival programs survive in the changing archival environment?


OpenEdition schlägt Ihnen vor, diesen Beitrag wie folgt zu zitieren:
Klaus Graf (4. September 2007). The Historical Profession and Archival Education. Archivalia. Abgerufen am 21. März 2025 von https://doi.org/10.58079/bzju


Autor: Klaus Graf

Historiker und Archivar, Blogger

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