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Use in Protestant Archives of the United States

Archival literature has largely overlooked the unique place religious archives hold both as collecting repositories and institutional entities. The literature has not examined how users use the resources at these repositories and to what ends. By limiting focus to Protestant archives of the United States, this article provides valuable insight into use and reference services of religious archives. To delve into this topic, the author developed an online survey which was sent to 11 Protestant repositories. These repositories were chosen because they represent major strains of Protestant thinking in the United States. The author then interviewed either the reference archivist or head archivist at five of these repositories. Based on this information and an in-depth study of the existing literature, this previously unexamined topic was explored.