Publication Date
2025
Abstract
Archival education has a legacy of collective development between professionals, educators, and students of archives. Longitudinal attention to archival pedagogy can greatly inform ongoing curricular directions, so that students always emerge from their archival program ready to manage complex collections in wide-ranging professional settings. One academic archival program’s first archival educator brought to her role relevant experience from both the aviation and newspaper industries that shaped her pedagogical impact on students. This paper considers the origins of archival education at the University of Missouri through the work of Aurora E. Davis, who served as a faculty member at the School of Library and Informational Science (SLIS) from 1978 to 1985. Davis specialized in archival access to government documents and had experiential interests in history and the aviation industry. The authors review Davis’s time at the University of Missouri, her contributions to information access for the citizens of Missouri, and her legacy to SLIS and its successor, which has been educating students for over fifty years.
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