Introduction to archival organization and description [electronic resource]

• Tác giả: Michael J Fox, Susanne R Warren, Peter L Wilkerson
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 0892365455
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 025.1714 Administration
• Thông tin xuất bản: [Los Angeles, Calif.] : Getty Information Institute, 1998
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (viii, 58 p.) : , ill.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 198809
• Chủ đề: 1. Archival materials; 2. Archives--Processing; 3. Cataloging of archival materials

Includes bibliographical references (p. 53-55).

Tóm tắt

This book serves as an introduction to the common organizational and descriptive practices that have developed in response to the particular requirements of archival collections. It serves as an orientation to fundamental archival principles for beginning and novice archivists, and includes such topics as the characteristics of archival materials and how these shape practices, the gathering and analyses of information that goes into descriptions, types of finding aids, and the deployment of information systems.