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multiple courses on archival administration in the 1977/78 SAA Education Directory. By
1980, Fredric Miller found the Directory showing forty-seven multi-course programs in
thirty-two states, which included archives courses in both history departments and library
schools.
11
By 1986, the SAA Education Directory listed 250 graduate courses in 27 archival
programs. Ericson based his article on this volume of the SAA Education Directory and his
analysis determined that 61 of these courses were courses that should be considered
"education that might benefit rather than archival education."
12
In 2001, the SAA Directory
became an electronic resource and the number of schools who pay to be listed has dropped
tremendously.
13
Our previous research examined the program philosophy statements, the
approximately 300 course titles, and other program descriptions in the 1999-2000 SAA
Education Directory and on websites of archival programs both listed not listed in the
Directory.
14
We found a wide variety of approaches to teaching archival theory and practice
in schools of library and information science and how this related to actual knowledge being
conveyed in the classroom was beyond the scope of that study.
15
There have been few direct examinations of syllabi in the past. Timothy Ericson and
James M. O'Toole carried out two smaller and less comprehensive curriculum studies in the
early 1990's.
16
O'Toole received syllabi from 18 archival education programs that added up
to less than 50 syllabi for a variety of courses and a range of programs. His abbreviated
content analysis findings confirmed Ericson's earlier work much of what passed for
archival education was comprised of courses that might benefit an archivist and not courses
that addressed the archival core.
17
Both Ericson and O'Toole also partially base their findings on courses as reported in
the Society of American Archivists (SAA) Education Directory. Although course titles
