Week 5: Description: 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 online: https://web.archive.org/web/20230401140421/https://digital.scaa.sk.ca/rad/radtoc.htm

Schaefer, Sibyl and Janet M. Bunde. "Standards for Archival Description (Module 1)" in Christopher Prom and Thomas J. Frusciano, eds., Archival Arrangement and Description. (Chicago: SAA, 2013), pp.12-65. Available via OWL course site, under Course Readings.


Lecture Outline:


Back to Course Outline