Description : innovative practices for archives and special collections / edited by Kate Theimer.

Title: 
Description : innovative practices for archives and special collections / edited by Kate Theimer.

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Description: 
xii, 185 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Other Authors: 
Theimer, Kate, 1966- editor.
Format of Material: 
Books
Bib ID: 
141056
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Location: 
Stacks
Call Number: 
Z695.2.D47 2014z
Notes: 
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: 
"The Hive" : crowdsourcing the description of collections / Zoë D'Arcy, National Archives of Australia --
More than a <biogHist> 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 Kristinsdóttir, 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.
ISBN: 
9780810890930 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0810890933 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780810890947 (ebook)
Series: 
Innovative practices for archives and special collections ; no. 1.
Innovative practices for archives and special collections ; no. 1