Arrangement

A Manual for Small Archives, Chapter 4: Organizing Archival Material

Jenkinson and Schellenberg:  A Comparison

Putting the Parts of the Whole Together:  Systematic Arrangement of Archives

The Concept of the Archival Fonds in the Post-Custodial Era: Theory, Problems and Solutions

Archivalterity:  Rethinking Original Order

Rules for Archival Description (RAD)

Basic RAD: An Introduction to the Preparation of Fonds- and Series-level Descriptions

International Descriptive Standards

International Standard for Describing Institutions with Archival Holdings

Description

A Manual for Small Archives, Chapter 5: Describing Archival Material

RAD Physical Description Builder University of Northern British Columbia Archives

Society of American Archivists: Metadata Best Practices for Trans and Gender Diverse Resources

Thinking Outside the Box:  Reimagining Archival Description with the "Series" System

Managing the Present:  Metadata as Archival Description

Metadata Strategies and Archival Description: Comparing Apples to Oranges

Origin and Development of the Concept of Archival Description

Grounding Archival Description in the Functional Requirements for Evidence

Describing Records in Context in the Continuum:  The Australian Recordkeeping Metadata Schema

Sample Descriptions

Sample: SFU Archives multi-level inventory: Mark Winston fonds

Sample: SFU Archives series-level description: Office of the Registrar fonds

Indexing

AABC: The British Columbia Thesaurus: a subject indexing tool for B.C. Archives

MemoryBC Subject Groups: 30 Subject Group headings, based on ASA subject terms and the BC Thesaurus, used for the MemoryBC indexing project  

Publications

• Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts (Archival Fundamentals Series II) by Kathleen D. Roe. (Society of American Archivists, 2005)

• Manual for the Arrangement and Description of Archives (Archival Classics Series) by S. Muller, J. A. Feith and R. Fruin. (Society of American Archivists, 2003, orig. 1940)

• RAD Revealed: A Basic Primer on the Rules for Archival Description by Wendy M. McDuff and Marlene van Ballegooie. (Canadian Council of Archives, 2001)

• The Archival Fonds: from Theory to Practice by Terry Eastwood (ed.) (Bureau of Canadian Archivists, 1992)

• Subject Indexing for Archives: The Report of the Subject Indexing Working Group. (Bureau of Canadian Archivists, 1992)

• Authority Control: A Manual for Archivists (Bureau of Canadian Archivists, 1991)