Week 4 - Arrangement & Description

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 Course Readings.

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 via OWL course site, under Course Readings.

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 Course Readings.

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