id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-12759 Burcklel, Nocholas C. Establishing a College Archives: Possibilities and Priorities 1975-09-01 9 .pdf application/pdf 5136 216 47 The best that a potential ar- chivist can hope for is an occasional course in library school which not only focuses on manuscripts and special col- lections, but on archives generally.1 Lacking formal preparation, a librarian who is appointed college archivist must tum to the literature of the field to find some guidance. Unfortunately, relevant information is difficult to find: library journals traditionally eschew archival articles and the American Archivist's ar- ticles on college archives are frequently no more than institutional case studies.2 The new archivist, therefore, confronts his job with few guidelines or sugges- tions. cache/crl-12759.pdf txt/crl-12759.txt