Manual of Archival Description
2nd Edition
Published on 12. July 1990
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-0-566-03634-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book aims to provide standards to control the production of finding aids and finding aid systems in archival repositories and archives services. It is therefore primarily intended as a guide to standard descriptive or cataloguing practices carried out by archivists in general repositories. The principles established in the first edition have been maintained but the rules and recommendations have been extended.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 162 mm
Width: 243 mm
Weight
670 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-566-03634-7 (9780566036347)
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Content
Part 1 The nature of archival description: what are archives?; archival arrangement; the function of a finding aid system; level and depth of description; the multi-level rule; fitting levels together; the two modes of archival description; depth of description; other aspects of archival description. Part 2 The data structure of an archival description: the purpose of data structure; how the table of data elements is made up; summary table of data elements; general rules; specific rules. Part 3 Recommended description formats: macro and micro descriptions; paragraph or list mode; description formats; management heading; group descriptions; subgroup descriptions; class descriptions; item descriptions; piece descriptions; composite descriptions; standard listing conventions. Part 4 Typology of archival descriptions - special formats: title deeds; letters and correspondence; photographs; cartographic archives; architectural and other plans; sound archives; film and video archives; machine readable archives; MARC for archives and manuscripts; dictionary of technical terms; sources used in the dictionary.