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