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Biography

Wendy M. Duff obtained her BA (1979) from the University of Kings College, her Wendy. M. Duff obtained her BA (1979) from the University of Kings College, her MLS (1983) from Dalhousie University and her Ph.D. (1996) from the University of Pittsburgh. She is the Director of the Digital Duration Institute, and teaches archives and records management with a focus on access to archival materials.

She is a founding member of AX-NET, an evolving international team of researchers interested in facilitating access to primary materials. She has also served as a member of the ICA Adhoc Commission on Descriptive Standards, the Encoded Archival Description Working Group, and The Canadian Council of Archives Standards Committee.

Her research interests are user studies, archival metadata, and collaboration among libraries, archives and museums. Her current research focuses on the development of generic user-based evaluation tools, the information seeking behaviour of archival users, archival reference and information technology needs of museum workers.

Professor Duff  received the Premier’s Research Excellence Award, and is a co-investigator on a research project funded by the Mellon Foundation and is also co-investigator with Lynne Howarth, Jennnifer Carter, Costis Dallas, Seamus Ross for “Museum Knowledge Workers for the 21st Century” funded by the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN).

Education

PhD - School of Library and Information Science - University of Pittsburgh, 1996

MLS - School of Library and Information Studies - Dalhousie University, 1983

BA – History - University of Kings College, 1979

 

Year joined the iSchool
1997
Responsibilities
Administrative Responsibilities

University of Toronto

  • Academic Board, 2008-
Past Responsibilities

Faculty of Information

  • Museum Studies Program: Interim Director, July 2006-December 2007
  • Advisory Committee for the Dean, July 2007-Jan 2008
  • Director of Graduate Studies, July 2004-July 2006; July-Dec 2008

University of Toronto

  • SGS Graduate Education Council (Chair, Division I), 2008
  • Research Ethics Board Working Group, 2008
  • Social Science & Humanities Research Ethics Board. Chair 2006-Dec, 2007, Member, 2005-2006.
  • University of Toronto Art Centre Advisory Committee, 2006-2007
  • University of Toronto Art Centre Board, 2006-2007.
  • University of Toronto, Museums Studies Review Committee, 2006
  • University of Toronto. Faculty of Information Studies

 

Research
Research Overview

 

Supervision

Jennifer Trant, PhD, 2007-

Lisa Daulby, PhD,  2001-

Jean Dryden, PhD, 2002 – 2008

Carol Radford-Grant, MA, 2005-07
 

Publications
Selected Publications

Article

Wendy M. Duff and Joan M. Cherry. “Archival Orientation for Undergraduate Students: An Exploratory Study of Impact.” The American Archivist 71:3 (Fall/Winter 2008), 499-529.

Wendy Duff and Allyson Fox, “You’re a Guide Rather than an Experts: Archival Reference from an Archivist’s Point of View” Journal of the Society of Archivists 27 (October 2006): 129-153.

Conference papers

“Ax-snet:  Wrapping Up and and Looking Forward”  Access to Archival Heritage, Stadshantoor, Breda, the Netherlands, April 16, 2008.

“Providing Access to Archival Material on the Web:  Revisited”  Eastica Annual Meeting, Soeul, South Korea, April 25, 2008. 

“Creating and Using Metadata and Registries”  7th DELOS Summer School 2006 Digital Preservation in Digital Libraries: Emerging Approaches Convento de Cappuccini, San Miniato, Italy 4th-10th June, 2006.

Wendy Duff and Helen Tibbo “Ax-sNet” Workshop on Archival Information, Seeking, Use and Access  Mid Sweden University Härnösand, Sweden June 23, 2005.

In books

Carole Compton Smith, Wendy M. Duff and John McDonald “Blended E-Learning Techniques: Lessons learned from the delivery of distance learning courses to the University of the West Indies” In Cheryl Peltier-Davis and Shamin Renwick (Eds.) Caribbean Libraries in the 21st Century: Changes, Challenges and Choices (Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2007)  pp. 303-314

Wendy Duff “A New Order Meets an Old World:  The Impact of Digital Objects on the Archival and Records Management Professions.” In Managing and Archiving Records in the Digital Era. Changing Professional Orientations eds. Seamus Ross, Hans Hoffman and Niklaus Bütikofer.  Baden : Hier + Jetzt, 2006, 105-114.

In a collection

Marlene Van Ballegooie and Wendy M. Duff, “ Archival Metadata” in The Digital Curation Manual available at  http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resource/curation-manual/chapters/archival-metadata...

In proceedings

Joan Cherry, Wendy Duff, Nalini Singh and Luanne Freund “One degree, three streams: three populations?” Accepted for ASIST 2008 Annual Meeting.

Elizabeth Yakel, Wendy Duff, Joan Cherry, Helen Tibbo and Aprille McKay, “The Archival Metrics Toolkit: Development and Implementation. Accepted for ASIST 2008 Annual Meeting.

Amy Marshall and Wendy Duff “Is Educating Archivists Enough?: Assessing the Impact of the ACA Institute 2002, “Approaches to the Preservation of Electronic Records” Preservation of Electronic Records: New Knowledge and Decision Making.  Symposium 2003. Ottawa  Sept 15. (Ottawa: Canadian Heritage, 2004), pp. 39-45.

Manuals

Wendy Duff, and Marlene Van Ballegooie, with assistance from Lori Eddy, RAD Revealed: The RAD Basic Primer (Ottawa: CCA, 2001).  (Simultaneously published as  À la décourverte des RDDA: Manuel d’initiation aux Règles pour la description des documents d’archives.)

Subject Indexing Working Group. Subject Indexing for Archives (Ottawa: Bureau of Canadian Archivists, 1992)  (Member of committee and co-authored chapters 1 and 2 with Heather MacNeil.)

Project report

Joan Cherry and Wendy Duff, “Early Canadiana Online: Summary of Findings from a Usage Study,” Facsimile 22 (November 1999): 17-20.

PhD thesis

“The Influence of Warrant on the Acceptance and Credibility of the Functional Requirements for Recordkeeping.”

Miscellaneous

“The Role of Museums”. Guest on CBC Radio show “The Current”, 29 May 2007

History
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Courses
Year Term Course Code Course Section Course Name
2001 Fall FIS2175H LEC0101 MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL RECORD
2002 Winter FIS1331H LEC0101 ARCHIVAL ARRANGEMENT & DESCR
2002 Winter FIS2178H LEC0101 DESIGN ELECTR DESCRIPT TOOLS
2002 Fall FIS1331H LEC0101 ARCHIVAL ARRANGEMENT & DESCR
2002 Fall FIS2180H LEC0101 ARCH: ACC, ADV & OUTREACH
2003 Winter FIS2175H LEC0101 MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL RECORD
2003 Winter FIS1332H LEC0101 ARCHIVES PROG & SERV
2004 Summer FIS2180H LEC0101 ARCH: ACC, ADV & OUTREACH
2004 Fall FIS1331H LEC0101 ARCHIVAL ARRANGEMENT & DESCR
2005 Winter FIS2175H LEC0101 MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL RECORD
2005 Fall FIS2180H LEC0101 ARCH: ACC, ADV & OUTREACH
2006 Winter FIS1240H LEC0102 RESEARCH METHODS
2006 Winter FIS2175H LEC0101 MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL RECORD
2006 Winter FIS1240H LEC0101 RESEARCH METHODS
2006 Winter FIS1331H LEC0101 ARCHIVAL ARRANGEMENT & DESCR
2006 Fall FIS1331H LEC0101 ARCHIVAL ARRANGEMENT & DESCR
2006 Fall MSL5000Y LEC0101 MUSEUM ST RSH PAPER
2006 Winter FIS1240H LEC0103 RESEARCH METHODS
2006 Winter FIS1240H LEC0104 RESEARCH METHODS
2007 Fall FIS2180H LEC0101 ARCH: ACC, ADV & OUTREACH
2007 Winter FIS2180H LEC0101 ARCH: ACC, ADV & OUTREACH
2007 Winter MSL5000Y LEC0101 MUSEUM ST RSH PAPER
2008 Fall FIS2180H LEC0101 ARCH: ACC, ADV & OUTREACH
2008 Fall FIS1331H LEC0101 ARCHIVAL ARRANGEMENT & DESCR
2008 Winter FIS2180H LEC0101 ARCH: ACC, ADV & OUTREACH
2008 Winter FIS1331H LEC0101 ARCHIVAL ARRANGEMENT & DESCR
2009 Winter FIS2180H LEC0101 ARCH: ACC, ADV & OUTREACH
2009 Winter FIS1332H LEC0101 ARCHIVES PROG & SERV
2009 Fall INF2180H LEC0101 ARCH: ACC, ADV & OUTREACH
2009 Fall INF1332H LEC0101 ARCHIVES PROG & SERV