Foreword

Introduction

Part 1 Archival Principles, Archival Practices

Archival Documentation

What is Documentation?
Why Document?
What Does Archival Documentation Involve?

Archival Materials and Information

The Nature of Archival Information
Principles of Archival Documentation
Archival Materials: How Characteristics Shape Practices

Part 2 Archival Analysis, Archival Description

Gathering and Analyzing Archival Information

Assembling Documentation
What Information is Collected?

Archival Description

Description: Conveying Information to Users
Descriptive Tools
Archival Information Systems: Delivering the Goods

Standards for Archival Description

About Standards
Different Types of Information Standards

Descriptive Standards for Finding Aids

Descriptive Standards for Catalog Records
Descriptive Standards for Inventories/Registers

Part 3 Putting It All Together: How an Archivist Works

Archival Processing

What is Processing?
Gathering and Analyzing Information
Organization and Arrangement
Creating Descriptions in the Form of Catalog Records and Inventories/Registers

Part 4 What's Ahead in Description and Access

The Future

Tutorial: An over-the-shoulder view of an archivist at work

Glossary

Acronyms

Bibliography

Web Resources