INFO 6800 - Archives

• Announcements• Brief history• Introduction to arrangement and

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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