ARST 593E: advanced arrangement & description of archival documents (3) -- course description
Pre-Requisites : ARST/LIBR 500, ARST 510, ARST 515, ARST 516, ARST 520, ARST 540, ARST 573, ARST 587
Goals : The goal of this course is to provide students with
an in-depth understanding of classical and contemporary theories,
methodologies, and models for arranging, describing, and providing
access to archival documents.
Objectives :
- To deepen students' understanding of the classical literature concerning the arrangement of archival documents and contemporary interpretations of that literature.
- To familiarise students with various perspectives concerning the nature and purpose of archival description in the twenty-first century .
- To provide students with practical experience in providing name and subject access points to archival descriptions.
- To introduce students to some proposed models for enhancing provenance-based access points to archival descriptions .
Content :
- Classical theory of archival arrangement
- Fonds and series based approaches to archival arrangement
- Archival description in the context of the continuum
- postmodern perspectives on archival description
- archival description and authenticity
- name authority control for person and corporate bodies
- provenance and pertinence based approaches to archival subject indexing
