The Acceptance and Implementation of the Rules for Archival Description by Canadian Archives: A Survey

Wendy Duff is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Information Studies . She received her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. While doing her doctoral work she was the project coordinator for the University of Pittsburgh Electronic Recordkeeping Project. She has written numerous articles on various aspects of archival description, electronic records, and access to archival material. She is presently co-investigator for a usage analysis study for a Digitization and Access Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. A goal of the project is to study use patterns of a digital collection model compared to a print or fiche model. She is Chair of the Canadian Committee on Archival Description, a member of the Encoded Archival Description Working Group, and was a member of the International Archival Description Ad Hoc Commission on Descriptive Standards. Her primary research interests are metadata, user studies, archival description, and electronic records.