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Women Coaches, Personal Papers, and University Archives Collections: A Case Study

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Abstract

Collegiate athletics are an important campus institution that tends not to be adequately documented in university archival collections. This is especially true With regard to women's athletics. The author presents the results of a case study in which she examined the personal papers of four coaches of women's intercollegiate athletic teams held in the Penn State Archives, in order to assess their utility in documenting women's intercollegiate athletics. She concludes that existing collections do not provide adequate documentation, although she considers coaches' papers to be an appropriate vehicle for providing that documentation. She suggests appraisal guidelines for materials likely to be found in coaches' papers, and argues for oral history as a means toward filling documentary gaps.

How to Cite:

Su, M. C., (1995) “Women Coaches, Personal Papers, and University Archives Collections: A Case Study”, Archival Issues 20(2), 155–165. doi: https://doi.org/10.31274/archivalissues.10652