Determining Differences Between Archival Staff and Restorers Ranking of Training Topics for Disaster Restoration Projects |
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| Authors: | Craig Evans Passley |
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| Institution: | Purdue University, West Lafayette , Indiana |
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| Abstract: | In the pursuit of new and actionable knowledge, the author conducted fieldwork in New Orleans four years following Hurricane Katrina. Since archival staff and restorers can be involved in moderate to major catastrophic disasters in archival institutions, differences in priorities between archival staff and restorers provide insight into each group's procedural preferences for ranking training topics. When 185 archival staff and 52 restorer respondents ranked training topics for importance, statistically significant differences were exhibited in five out of twenty-one training topics (α = .05). Since both groups have different job-specific skills, there exist reasons for differences in training topic rankings. |
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| Keywords: | restorer archival staff archival material staff training disaster restoration project |
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