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- Title
Reflections on Archival User Studies.
- Authors
Rhee, Hea Lim
- Abstract
The article presents a study which examines the U.S. and Canadian literature on archival user studies and uncover the issues and challenges facing the archival community in conducting user studies. Topics include the emergence of archival user studies in 1980s, archival institutions not having sufficient resources, including staff time, to conduct user studies, and the most important function of archival institutions being preservation of rare or unique materials, not user service.
- Subjects
ARCHIVAL research; CANADIAN literature; ACADEMIC libraries; LIBRARY personnel; ARCHIVAL resources
- Publication
Reference & User Services Quarterly, 2015, Vol 54, Issue 4, p29
- ISSN
1094-9054
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5860/rusq.54n4.29