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Arrangement and Description |
▪ Indexing Revised January 2010 - MH |
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GENERAL RESOURCES (online)
Rules for Archival Description (Revised Version 2008) General Introduction, pages 27 - 30, and Chapter 1: General Rules for Description, p. 35 - 104. (Bureau of Canadian Archivists, 2008)
ARRANGEMENT (online)
‘With Respect to Original Order’: Changing Values in Archival Arrangement / Robert Edwards AABC Newsletter, Vol. 11 , No. 1, Winter 2001 (Archives Association of British Columbia, 2001)
Chapter 4: Organizing Archival Material / Laura Coles, A Manual for Small Archives
DESCRIPTION AND DESCRIPTIVE STANDARDS (online)
Rules for Archival Description (Revised Version 2008) (Bureau of Canadian Archivists, 2008)
2008 Revisions to RAD - Announcement by the Canadian Committee on Archival Description (Canadian Committee on Archival Description, 2008)
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)
Chapter 5: Describing Archival Material / Jane Turner, A Manual for Small Archives
SEE ALSO: Networks and network resources and Standards
SAMPLE DESCRIPTIONS (online)
MemoryBC – British Columbia Archival Information Network (Archives Association of British Columbia, 2009-)
Sample multi-level inventory: Mark Winston fonds (Simon Fraser University Archives, 2007)
Sample multi-level inventory: Dr. A. C. Waldie fonds (British Columbia Medical Association Archives, 200_)
Sample multi-level inventory: Ethel Johns fonds (University of British Columbia Archives, 1974)
Sample series-level description: Office of the Registrar fonds
Sample file list description: Office of the Registrar fonds
Sample item-level photograph description (City Of Vancouver Archives, 200_)
Sample item-level map description (City Of Richmond Archives, 200_)
INDEXING (online)
MemoryBC Subject Groups (Topics), Final Draft : 30 Subject Group headings, based on ANA subject terms and the BC Thesaurus, used for the MemoryBC indexing project/ by Margery Hadley, Contractor (Archives Association of British Columbia, 2009)
Topic Terms for Fonds Level Database Archives Network of Alberta, Alberta Databases Reference Manual , Ver. 4.32, Chapter 3, p.7 -10 (Archives Society of Alberta, 2008)
Municipal & Local Terms: A Supplement to The British Columbia Thesaurus / Janet Turner (Archives Association of British Columbia, 1993)
The British Columbia Thesaurus: a subject indexing tool for B.C. Archives / Janet Turner and Donna Kynaston (BC Archives Council, 1990)
PUBLICATIONS (for sources click here)
Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts (Archival Fundamentals Series II) / Kathleen D. Roe (Society of American Archivists, 2005)
Manual for the Arrangement and Description of Archives (Archival Classics Series) / S. Muller, J. A. Feith and R. Fruin (Society of American Archivists, 2003, orig. 1940)
The ANLA Resource Binder for Small Archives, Chapter 3: Arrangement (Association of Newfoundland and Labrador Archives, 2002)
The ANLA Resource Binder for Small Archives, Chapter 7: Untangling RAD (Association of Newfoundland and Labrador Archives, 2002)
RAD Revealed: A Basic Primer on the Rules for Archival Description / Wendy M. McDuff and Marlene van Ballegooie (Canadian Council of Archives, 2001)
The Archival Fonds: from Theory to Practice / Terry Eastwood (ed) (Bureau of Canadian Archivists, 1992)
Subject Indexing for Archives: The Report of the Subject Indexing Working Group.
Authority Control: A Manual for Archivists (Bureau of Canadian Archivists, 1991)
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