Week 4: Arrangement: Fundamental Principles and Procedures

 


Reading Assignment:

"Arranging and Describing Archives" in Laura A. Millar, Archives: Principles and Practices. (New York: Neal-Schuman, 2017), Chapter 11. Available via OWL course site, under Resources.

Basic RAD: An introduction to the preparation of fonds and series level descriptions using the Rules for Archival Description (Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists, 1997). Available online: http://lib74123.usask.ca/scaa/rad/radtoc.htm

Krawczyk, Bob. "Cross Reference Heaven: The Abandonment of the Fonds as the Primary Level of Arrangement for Ontario Government Records." Archivaria 48 (Fall 1999), pp. 131-153. Available via OWL course site, under Resources.


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