Week 8: Web-Based Reference Tools and the Re-Animation of Records; Identifying Services & Needs

 
  • The 3 Essential Duties of a Reference Archivist 
    • To facilitate research
    • To undertake research
    • To educate users
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  • Information about the holdings within your repository

  • In-house finding aids
  • Provenance Based Descriptive Systems

    • The Inferential Process - when the archivist infers from provenance information which organizations
    or persons might have undertaken the activity the user is interested in.

  • Content Indexing Descriptive Systems
  • Integrated systems: Indexes and "Intellectual" Inventories  
  • Evolving On-Line Public Access Systems
  • MARC-AMC (1983)
  • NUCMC (began in 1959, later online as MARC-AMC)
  • Understanding EAD (Encoded Archival Description) (1990s)
  • AtoM - Open Source Archival Description (2007)
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  • The Reference Interaction
  • The Initial Interview
  • Query Abstraction Stage
  • Resolution Stage
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  • Continual Assistance
  • Exit Interview
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  • Traditional Services
  • Copying Services
  • Research Services
  • Telephone & Mail Requests
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  • A Tale of Two Counties: Web-based Reference and Research Services
  • Ontario County Archives, NY - 2000
  • Ontario County Archives, NY - 2014
  • Westchester County Archives, NY
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  • Loaning Materials: The Wisconsin Example

  • MORE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

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