TitleDescription : innovative practices for archives and special collections / edited by Kate Theimer
ImprintLanham : Rowman & Littlefield, c2014
Descript xii, 185 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

CONTENT

"The Hive" : crowdsourcing the description of collections / Zoèe D'Arcy, National Archives of Australia -- More than a note : early experiences with implementing EAC-CPF / Erin Faulder, Veronica Martzahl, and Eliot Wilczek, Tufts University -- Creating access and establishing control : conducting a comprehensive survey to reveal a hidden repository / Matthew B. Gorham and Chela Scott Weber, Brooklyn Historical Society -- Step by step, stage by stage : getting a diverse backlog of legacy finding aids online / Eira Tansey, Tulane University -- You got your archives in my cataloging : a collaborative standards-based approach to creating item-level metadata for digitized archival materials / Kelcy Shepherd and Kate Gerrity, Amherst College -- A long road : creating policies and procedures for mandatory arrangement and description by records creators / Kristjana Kristinsdâottir, National Archives of Iceland -- Collaboration in cataloging : sourcing knowledge from near and far for a challenging collection / Evyn Kropf, University of Michigan -- Where there's a will there's a way : using LibGuides to rescue paper ephemera from the bibliographic underbrush / Sharon Farnel, Robert Cole, Robert Desmarais, Spencer Holizki, and Jeff Papineau, University of Alberta -- Describing records, people, organizations and functions : the empowering the user project's flexible archival catalogue / Clare Paterson, University of Glasgow -- Business as usual : integrating born-digital materials into regular workflows / Jackie Dean and Meg Tuomala, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -- Opening the black file cabinets : describing single items for discovery and access / James Gerencser, Dickinson College


SUBJECT

  1. Innovative practices for archives and special collections explores how archives of different sizes and types can enchance the accessibility of their holdings. It features eleven case studies to help archivists and special collections librarians better describe their collections so that users can locate the right materials. -- Back cover
  2. Cataloging of archival materials
  3. Cataloging of archival materials -- Case studies
  4. Cataloging of special collections in libraries
  5. Cataloging of special collections in libraries -- Case studies
  6. Information storage and retrieval systems -- Archival materials

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