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Elizabeth Yakel Associate Professor
AB, Brown University; AMLS, Ph.D. in information, University of Michigan
(734) 763-3569
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E-mail: yakel@umich.edu
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| Specialization(s): ARM
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Elizabeth Yakel is an associate professor in the School of Information and coordinator of the Preservation of Information specialization of the Master of Science in Information program.
She is a member of the Archives and Records Management specialization within the Master of Science in Information program. Before joining the SI faculty, she was an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences. Prior to that, she worked in a variety of archival and records management settings.
Her research interests include use and user services for archival materials, particularly focusing on the digital realm, and the development of recordkeeping systems. She is working on several research projects, including "Developing Standardized Metrics: Towards Understanding the Impact of College and University Archives and Special Collections on Scholarship, Teaching, and Learning," funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Working with researchers from the University of Toronto and the University of North Carolina, this research project will develop validated data collection tools for archives and special collections to enable repositories to better evaluate use and user services. The goal is to create a robust data set for administrative and professional benchmarking as well as for research.
Another research project in which she is involved is "Health Information Technology to Support Safe Nursing Care." This project examines the recordkeeping practices of nurses and provides a technological intervention to support nursing documentation and reporting.
Yakel has published widely on many aspects of archival use and user services and recordkeeping systems in major archival journals, including American Archivist, Archivaria, and Archival Science. She is currently co-editing an upcoming book, User Based Evaluation & Metrics in Archives: Current Practice and Future Prospects, which will be published in 2006 by the Society of American Archivists. She was a contributor to Vatican Archives: An Inventory and Guide to Historical Documentation of the Holy See, New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Yakel has participated in numerous elected, appointed, and voluntary professional and service activities including:
- Editor, Archival Science (with Eric Ketelaar and Peter Horsman), 2004-present
- Society of American Archivists
- A-CENSUS Steering Committee member, 2004-05
- Education Office Strategic Planning/Guidelines Revision Task Force, 2002-04 (chair)
- Master of Archival Studies Guidelines Revision Task Force, 1999-present
- American Archivist, Editorial Board member, 1997-2004
- Council member, 1992-95
- Executive Committee member, 1994-95
She has won various awards for her research and professional contributions, including:
- Elected a fellow of the Society of American Archivists, August 1999
- Society of American Archivists, C.F.W. Coker Award for Innovative Development in Archival Description for Vatican Archives: An Inventory and Guide to the Historical Records of the Holy See, 1999
- Association of Library and Information Science Educators (ALISE), Eugene Garfield - ALISE Doctoral Dissertation Award, 1998
- Research Fellowship for the Study of Modern Archives, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, 1994
- Sister M. Claude Lane Award, presented jointly by the Society of American Archivists and the Society of Southwest Archivists, September 1991
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