Archival Education Overview

(Part of KALIPER, or The Kellogg-ALISE Information Professions and Education Renewal Project)

American archival education at the graduate level developed gradually throughout the twentieth century. In the past decade, however, its development has accelerated and firmer foundations were built in graduate library and information science (LIS) programs throughout North America. Our findings indicate strength and individualization in graduate level archival education programs, a dramatic increase in full-time, tenure-track faculty, a growing number of course offerings often eclipsing the LIS offerings in an archival student's course of study, and the nascent development of degrees acknowledging the archives and records field. Despite the substantial growth of archival education within the LIS schools, there is confusion or lack of understanding about the archival field by these schools as well as a lack of commitment by archival professional associations to advocating specific changes in archival education.

Investigators: Elizabeth Yakel, Richard Cox (University of Pittsburgh), Jeannette Bastian (Simmons College), David Wallace (University of Michigan), Jennifer Marshall (University of South Carolina)

Articles: R. J. Cox, E. Yakel, D. Wallace, J. Bastian, and J. Marshall, "Educating Archivists in Library and Information Science Schools," Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 42/3 (2001): 61-73.

R. J. Cox, E. Yakel, D. Wallace, J. Bastian, and J. Marshall, "Archival Education at the Millennium: The Status of Archival Education in North American Library and Information Science Schools," Library Quarterly 71/2 (April 2001).

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