Thinking Inside and Outside the Boxes: Archival Reference Services at the Turn of the Century

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  • Elizabeth Yakel

Author Biography

Elizabeth Yakel

Elizabeth Yakel is currently an assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. Previously, she worked as research assistant for the Medical Collaboratory Project at the University of Michigan. She has also taught at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences. Past archival positions include director of the Maryknoll Mission Archives and project archivist for the National Historical Publications and Records Commission-funded Technical Assistance Project in New York City. Her primary areas of research are electronic record-keeping systems and the evaluation of user needs. Dr. Yakel is a contributor to Vatican Archives: An Inventory and Guide to the Historical Documentation of the Holy See, the author of Starting an Archives, and several articles on the administrative use of archives. She is active professionally and has been a council member of the Society of American Archivists. She was elected a Fellow of the Society in 1999.

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Published

2000-01-01

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Yakel, Elizabeth. 2000. “Thinking Inside and Outside the Boxes: Archival Reference Services at the Turn of the Century”. Archivaria 49 (January):140-60. https://archivaria.dev.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/archivaria/article/view/12742.

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Archivaria 49 (Spring 2000)

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