The Value of Archival Description, Considered. Callahan, M. 2014. Publication Title: Chaos –\textgreater Order Type: Blog
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In their initial email, Ellen Shea and Mary O’Connell Murphy asked, “Is the product of a finding aid worthy of the time required to make them considering emerging technologies? Where do you think research guides might be headed in the future? How do you think they must change in order to improve access to archival collections and meet today’s user’s needs?” Most provocatively, they asked, “What do researchers really want from finding aids? Do they want them at all?” And I think that the answer is no. And maybe. And yes.In their initial email, Ellen Shea and Mary O’Connell Murphy asked, “Is the product of a finding aid worthy of the time required to make them considering emerging technologies? Where do you think research guides might be headed in the future? How do you think they must change in order to improve access to archival collections and meet today’s user’s needs?” Most provocatively, they asked, “What do researchers really want from finding aids? Do they want them at all?” And I think that the answer is no. And maybe. And yes.
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	abstract = {In their initial email, Ellen Shea and Mary O’Connell Murphy asked, “Is the product of a finding aid worthy of the time required to make them considering emerging technologies? Where do you think research guides might be headed in the future? How do you think they must change in order to improve access to archival collections and meet today’s user’s needs?” Most provocatively, they asked, “What do researchers really want from finding aids? Do they want them at all?” And I think that the answer is no. And maybe. And yes.In their initial email, Ellen Shea and Mary O’Connell Murphy asked, “Is the product of a finding aid worthy of the time required to make them considering emerging technologies? Where do you think research guides might be headed in the future? How do you think they must change in order to improve access to archival collections and meet today’s user’s needs?” Most provocatively, they asked, “What do researchers really want from finding aids? Do they want them at all?” And I think that the answer is no. And maybe. And yes.},
	language = {English},
	author = {Callahan, Maureen},
	year = {2014},
	note = {Publication Title: Chaos –{\textbackslash}textgreater Order
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