INFO 6800 - Archives
• Announcements• Brief history• Introduction to arrangement and
description
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http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2000-03-27/
History and Development of Archives
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www.historyofinformation.com
Roman Tabularium
History and Development of Archives
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Domesday Book
Tax Roll
Hunain ibn Ishaq manuscript
History and Development of Archives
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Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci (1485-90)
In the Salon of Madame Geoffrin in 1755 (1812)
History and Development of Archives
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Physical Arrangement Description
Intellectual Arrangement Description Physical Arrangement
12th - 18th century
Enlightenment
History and Development of Archives
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Storming of the Bastille and arrest of the Governor M. de Launay, July 14, 1789
French Revolution
History and Development of Archives
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Physical Arrangement Intellectual Arrangement + Description
Dismembered fonds Open fonds
respect des fonds = intellectual concept
19th - 20th century
History and Development of Archives
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History and Development of Archives
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?Redefining Provenance
History and Development of Archives
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Library and Archives Canada, Canadian Directory Services
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Arrangement
PreservationDescription
Archives decision-making diagram Library of Congress
Resource Allocation
Respect des fonds
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Fonds Fonds
Fonds Fonds
Collection Fonds
Fonds Fonds
Council of Nova Scotia Archives, 2005
Respect des fonds
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Helen Creighton with the Gallagher family, Chebucto Head, ca. 1950
Ethnographic Archives
Respect des fonds
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Photographs from the Oland and Son and Affiliated Companies fonds (MS-4-135)
Respect des fonds
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Photographs from the Oland and Son and Affiliated Companies fonds (MS-4-135)Collection of audio recordings created at four different recording studios
Respect des fonds
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The First Panchen Lama, Lobzang Chökyi Gyaltsen (detail)
Redefining Provenance
Arrangement
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Arranging a fonds at the Dalhousie University Archives
Arrangement
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Files or records within a fonds arranged systematically or maintained as a unit because they relate to a particular function or subject, result from the same activity, have a particular form, or because of some other relationship arising out of their creation, receipt, and/or use
Series
Arrangement
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Physically organizing business correspondence at Dalhousie University Archives
Archival Description
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Product
Process
Purpose
Archival Description
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ISAD(G), International Council on Archives (2000)
Archival Description
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Old folder labels at the Dalhousie University Archives
Archival Description
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Archives and the Internet
Facilitate access
Promote understanding
Authenticity of materialsPurposes
of archival description
Rules for Archival Description
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Principles
Rules for Archival Description
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Attention to use
Integrated description
Respect des fonds
All forms and mediums
Reflects arrangement
Describe creator
Rules for Archival Description
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AACR2 RADTitle and statement of responsibility
Title and statement of responsibility
Material (or type of publication) specific details
Class of material specific details
Publication, etc. Date(s) of creationPhysical description Physical descriptionN/A Archival descriptionNote Note
Rules for Archival Description
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Canadian Army Historical Section fonds finding aid on www.archeoin.ca
Archives and the Internet
Sources (in order of appearance)
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Adams, Scott (2000). Dilbert comic. http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2000-03-27/.
Council of Nova Scotia Archives. Fonds diagram. http://www.councilofnsarchives.ca/ArchWay.
Helen Creighton with the Gallagher family, Chebucto Head (ca. 1950). http://www.helencreighton.org/photos/HCphotos/files/page6-1005-full.html.
The First Panchen Lama, Lobzang Chökyi Gyaltsen (detail); Tsang Province, Tibet; 18th century; Rubin Museum of Art; F1996.21.2 (HAR 477). http://www.rmanyc.org/nav/exhibitions/view/1562.
Jeremy Norman and Co. (2012). The Roman Tabularium. In Jeremy Norman’s From Cave Paintings to the Internet: Chronological and Thematic Studies on the History of Information and Media. http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=2624.
Sources (in order of appearance)
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National Archives (n.d.). An extract from Domesday Book, Westminster. (Catalogue ref: E31/2/1). In Focus on Domesday: Take a Closer Look. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/focuson/domesday/take-a-closer-look/.
National Archives (n.d.). A tax roll with a nasty tale to tell (E 401/1565). In A Medieval Mystery. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/lessons/lesson12.htm.
The eye according to Hunain ibn Ishaq (circa 1200). Manuscript at the Cairo National Library. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cheshm_manuscript.jpg.
Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci (1485-1490). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Da_Vinci_Vitruve_Luc_Viatour.jpg.
In the Salon of Madame Geoffrin in 1755, 1812. Château de Malmaison, Rueil-Malmaison, France. http://humanexperience.stanford.edu/arcade.
Anonymous (unknown). Storming of the Bastille and arrest of the Governor M. de Launay, July 14, 1789. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Anonymous_-_Prise_de_la_Bastille.jpg.
Sources (in order of appearance)
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Library and Archives Canada(1983). Canadian stamp of Josiah Henson. In The Anti-Slavery Movement in Canada. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/anti-slavery/033004-3000-e.html .
Canadian Directory Services (2012). Map of Canada. http://www.titlesearchers.ca/registries/.
Library of Congress (2010). Archival decision making process diagram. http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/prep.html.
National Defense Directorate of History and Heritage. Canadian Army Historical Section fonds. http://www.archeion.ca/canadian-army-historical-section-fonds-2;rad.
International Council on Archives (2000). Model of the levels of arrangement of a fonds. In International Standard for Archival Description (General), p. 36. http://www.ica.org/10207/standards/isadg-general-international-standard-archival-description-second-edition.html.
Sources (in order of appearance)
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National Defense Directorate of History and Heritage. Canadian Army Historical Section fonds. http://www.archeion.ca/canadian-army-historical-section-fonds-2;rad.
Photographs of Dalhousie University Archives and the Killam Library were taken by Dalhousie Libraries staff
Photographs from the Oland and Son and Affiliated Sons fonds (MS-4-135) can be found on the Dalhousie University Archives facebook page