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Starting an Archive

Author
Elizabeth Yakel
Publisher
Society of American Archivists and The Scarecrow Press
Place
Chicago, Illinois
ETC archive
ETC0987
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Elizabeth Yakel. Starting an Archive. Society of American Archivists and The Scarecrow Press. 1994.

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