Users of EAD finding aids: Who are they and are they satisfied?

Journal of Archival Organization

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 25-39

  Coats, Lisa R ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archival descriptive standards; EAD; Encoded Archival Description; Finding aids; Online access; Subject access; User studies; Users

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548359769     PISSN: 15332748     EISSN: 15332756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J201v02n03_03     Document Type: Article

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