Institutional archives at Urban North American Universities: An assessment of current practices

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

2015 4th International Symposium on Emerging Trends and Technologies in Libraries and Information Services

Abstract

This paper reports a study of institutional archives at urban and metropolitan universities that are members of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU). Founded in 1990, the CUMU is an organization of North American institutions of higher education committed to the shared mission to use the power of their campuses in education, research and service to enhance the communities in which they are located. Currently approximately 90 institutions are members of the CUMU. This paper reports the results of a survey to identify collections, staffing, reporting structures and institutional records management programs. It examines the challenges of collecting and preserving primary and secondary source material that document the history of urban universities.

First Page

265

Last Page

269

DOI

10.1109/ETTLIS.2015.7048209

Publication Date

2-26-2015

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