Arranging and describing archives and manuscripts
"Arrangement and description lie at the very heart of the archival endeavor. While all archival functions are crucial and interdependent, arrangement and description transform the potential value of materials into practical, usable value for researchers and others. In Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts, Dennis Meissner provides a solid foundation in the history, theory, and standards supporting arrangement and description. In addition, he clearly demonstrates the approaches, methods, and mechanics required to process archival collections. The processing landscape has changed considerably in the last decade: archivists focus more on the economics of processing, descriptive standards have matured and increased in number, new technologies and viewpoints have challenged long-standing assumptions, and evolving systems and software have changed the mechanics of metadata capture and serialization and our approaches to those fundamental processes. This is a must-read book for every archivist practicing today."--
Bibliographic Information
| Format: | Book |
|---|---|
| Author: | Meissner, Dennis, |
| Subject: |
Archives Cataloging of archival materials Cataloging of manuscripts |
| Publication Year: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Chicago : Society of American Archivists, [2019] |
| ISBN: | 9781945246074 1945246073 |
| Series: | Archival fundamentals series. III ; 2 |
| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-204) and index. The context and significance of arrangement and description -- Principles of archival arrangement -- Principles of archival description -- Physical processing and arrangement -- Describing the materials -- Arranging and describing nontextual formats -- Emerging trends and theoretical shifts Appendixes : Glossary of arrangement and description terminology -- Examples of institutional processing levels -- Finding aids examples -- Example of full finding aid encoded in EAD -- Example of MARC21 record -- Crosswalks between descriptive standards -- Recommend reading: achival arrangement and description. |
| Course: |
ACT313 |
Availability at HKSYU Library
| Location | Call number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| English Book (4/F) | 025.3068 MEI 2019 | Available |