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NOTES

(1.) Over the years, the concerns of women's collections archivists have often been conflated with issues pertaining to the status of female archivists. Thus, the Society of American Archivists (SAA) suggested in the late 1990s that the Women's Collections Roundtable and the Women Archivists Roundtable be combined, although the former was specifically geared to archivists who worked with women's collections while the latter was a roundtable devoted to issues concerning the status of women in archives.

(2.) When the project began it was assumed that it would be a modest effort. The tens of thousands of collections by or about women included in the guide--merely the tip of the iceberg--effectively silenced the argument that there were not enough sources to support the study of women's history.