The AABC Archivist's Toolkit: Arrangement and Description

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Revised 2012

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 (Archives Association of British Columbia, 1988)

DESCRIPTION AND DESCRIPTIVE STANDARDS  (online)

RAD Refresher / Kelly Stewart, EAS Coordinator, AABC (Archives Association of British Columbia, 2010)

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 (Archives Association of British Columbia, 1994)

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 series-level description: Office of the Registrar fonds (Simon Fraser University Archives, 2001-2005)

Sample file list description: Office of the Registrar fonds (Simon Fraser University Archives, 2001-2005)

 

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

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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. (Bureau of Canadian Archivists, 1992)

Authority Control: A Manual for Archivists (Bureau of Canadian Archivists, 1991) 

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