Good day archives and archives-adjacent colleagues,
Hello -- My name is Karen Trivette; I am a PhD candidate, 3rd Bologna Cycle, in Archival Science at Alma Mater Europaea-European Center Maribor and a long-time member of SAA. My doctoral research centers around archives arrangement.
I am questioning if a standardized form, model, or method of archival records arrangement would more successfully respect and document the organic contexts of an institution's natural business modalities and their resulting archival records. This would also apply to personal papers and the creator's natural human experiences and the resulting archival records.
To help me answer this question, I respectfully ask you to assist me with my PhD research by answering 16 questions. Your time commitment will be no longer than 20 minutes and all responses will be confidential. I am prepared to share the results of my findings with all respondents.
You may access the survey here:
You are most welcome to share this survey widely as you deem relevant.
If you would like to know more about me, then please feel free to visit my website at
karenjtrivette.net.
I am more than happy to field any questions or concerns (in fact, they are encouraged!).
I thank you very much for considering my request and for your kind participation!
Sincerely,
Karen J. TRIVETTE, ABD
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Karen Trivette
Prof., Head of Special Collections and College Archives
Fashion Institute of Technology
New York NY
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