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A Guide to the Description of Architectural Drawings


Bibliography


Architectural Drawings
ADAG/FDA
Architectural Drawings Documentation
General Art Documentation
Archival Documentation
Library Documentation

Architectural Drawings

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ADAG/FDA

Bearman, David. "Considerations in the Design of Art Scholarly Databases.'' Library Trends 37 (1988): 206—219.

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Architectural Drawings Documentation

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General Art Documentation

Abell-Seddon, Brian. Museum Catalogues: A Foundation for Computer Processing. London: Clive Bingley Limited, 1988.

Architectural Heritage, New Technologies in Documentation: Council of Europe Round Table of Experts Organized in Cooperation with the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME), London 7—10 November 1989. Architectural Reports and Studies 19. Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 1990.

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Archival Documentation

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"Standards for Archival Description: Background Paper.'' American Archivist 53, 1 (Winter 1990): 24-120.

Bearman, David. Archival Methods: Archives and Museum Informatics Technical Report 3, 1 (Spring 1989).

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Cook, Michael. The Management of Information from Archives. Aldershot, Hants, England; Brookfield, VT: Gower, 1986.

Cook, Michael, and Margaret Procter. A ""MAD'' User Guide. British Library R&D Report 5965. Aldershot, Hants, England; Brookfield, VT: Gower, 1989.

Cook, Michael, and Margaret Procter. A Manual of Archival Description, 2nd ed. British Library R&D Report 5965. Aldershot, Hants, England; Brookfield, VT: Gower, 1989.

Daniels, Maygene F., and Timothy Walch, eds. A Modern Archives Reader: Basic Readings on Archival Theory and Practice. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service, U.S. General Services Administration, 1984.

Evans, Max J., and Lisa B. Weber. MARC For Archives and Manuscripts: A Compendium of Practice. Madison: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1985.

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Library Documentation

Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. 2nd ed., 1988 rev. Chicago: American Library Association, 1988.