A manual of archival description
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A manual of archival description
Gower, c1989
2nd ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-273) and index
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Description
This book aims to provide standards to control the production of finding aids and finding aid systems in archival repositories and archives services. It is therefore primarily intended as a guide to standard descriptive or cataloguing practices carried out by archivists in general repositories. The principles established in the first edition have been maintained but the rules and recommendations have been extended.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The nature of archival description: what are archives?
- archival arrangement
- the function of a finding aid system
- level and depth of description
- the multi-level rule
- fitting levels together
- the two modes of archival description
- depth of description
- other aspects of archival description. Part 2 The data structure of an archival description: the purpose of data structure
- how the table of data elements is made up
- summary table of data elements
- general rules
- specific rules. Part 3 Recommended description formats: macro and micro descriptions
- paragraph or list mode
- description formats
- management heading
- group descriptions
- subgroup descriptions
- class descriptions
- item descriptions
- piece descriptions
- composite descriptions
- standard listing conventions. Part 4 Typology of archival descriptions - special formats: title deeds
- letters and correspondence
- photographs
- cartographic archives
- architectural and other plans
- sound archives
- film and video archives
- machine readable archives
- MARC for archives and manuscripts
- dictionary of technical terms
- sources used in the dictionary.
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