Canadian Archivists: What Types of People Are They?

  • Barbara Lazenby Craig

Abstract

This article reports the results of a national survey on the temperamentof archivists in Canada done in 1998 using the Keirsey Temperament Sorter. Temperament testing and temperament types are discussed in order to provide a wider context for the Canadian survey, which was done to parallel similar surveys ofarchivists in the United States and Australia. Canadian results are presented in tables and comparisons are made to the temperament profile of a world population drawnfrom a number of countries and available electronically. The temperament typing survey is related to the larger demographic survey of Canadian archivists of which it was one part.

RÉSUMÉ

On retrouve dans cet article les résultats d’un sondage national sur lapersonnalité des archivistes au Canada, réalisé en 1998 en utilisant le test de Keirsey (Keirsey Temperament Sorter). Les tests et les types de personnalité sont analysés dans le but de fournir le contexte global du sondage canadien, qui fut réalisé afin defaire des parallèles avec des études similaires effectuées aux États-Unis et en Australie. Les résultats canadiens sont présentés sous forme de tableaux et descomparaisons sont faites avec le portrait des types de personnalité de la population mondiale tel qu’établi par des études faites dans plusieurs pays et accessibles électroniquement. Ce sondage sur la personnalité des archivistes est relié à l’enquête démographique plus large sur les archivistes canadiens dont il forme une partie.

Author Biography

Barbara Lazenby Craig
Barbara L. Craig is Associate Professor of Archive Studies and Director of the Centre for Research in Information Studies in the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto. Prior to her appointment in August 1993, she was the Archivist of York University (North York, Ontario) and the Head of the Archives and Special Collections Department of the Scott Library from 1989, and an archivist at the Archives of Ontario from 1970. She has a Ph.D. in archive studies, has undertaken extensive research into hospital archives in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, and has published widely on the history of record-keeping, the history of medicine and medical archives, and archive theory. A past chair of the Ontario Council of Archives, an officer of the Association of Canadian Archivists in many capacities, and a director of the Ontario Women’s History Network, Dr. Craig was Reviews Editor of the American Archivist and is currently Senior Associate Editor of Archivaria.
Published
2000-11-01
How to Cite
Craig, Barbara Lazenby. 2000. “Canadian Archivists: What Types of People Are They?”. Archivaria 50 (November), 79-92. https://www.archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/12766.
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