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Peer reviewedBeattie, Diane – Reference Librarian, 1997
Arguing that provenance-based retrieval tools do not provide access to "hidden groups" (blacks, women, ethnic and cultural minorities, aboriginal, poor, and working people), this article examines ways to improve traditional descriptive tools. Concludes that archivists need to expand subject access to include function/occupation and type…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Authority Control (Information), Blacks
