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Terminology

  • Digital vs. Digitized
  • Pull Slip or Call Slip
  • Deposit
  • Records Management
  • Reading Room

Equipment

  • Emulators
  • Microfilm & Microfiche

Archival Arrangement

& Description

What Kinds of Materials do Archives Collect

Finding & using archival material can be challenging!

  • Institutional documents
  • Personal papers
  • Legal records
  • Financial records
  • Manuscripts & rare books
  • Photographs & media
  • Cultural ephemera
  • Digital material
  • Finding Aids & Catalogs
  • Administrative / Descriptive / Technical Metadata
  • Scope & Arrangement (subject / author)
  • Record Group
  • Series
  • Box
  • Folder
  • Provenance
  • Extent

http://www2.archivists.org/usingarchives/findingandevaluating

Types of Archives

Why do Archives Exist?

Some Examples

https://rhizome.org/art/artbase/

https://www.croptrust.org/what-we-do/svalbard-global-seed-vault/

  • To preserve information & make it accessible
  • To document history including important governmental / legislative / municipal information
  • To protect people & organizations
  • University Archives
  • Corporate Archives
  • Government Archives
  • Religious Archives
  • Historical Societies
  • Museums
  • Special Collections
  • Digital Archives
  • NYPL Map Division
  • Laguardia Wagner Archives NYCHA Collection
  • Avery Drawings & Archives
  • Svalbard Global Seed Vault
  • Library of Congress National Film Registry
  • Rhizome Artbase
  • National Archives
  • NYC Municipal Archives
  • Franklin Furnace Archive
  • Interference Archive

http://interferencearchive.org/

http://library.columbia.edu/locations/avery/da.html

http://franklinfurnace.org/research/event_archives.php

Unlike libraries, some archival materials must legally be collected through a process called deposit.

Archives are not Libraries

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