The Truth about Original Order, or What to Do When Your Collection Arrives in Trash Cans

Description: 

In this video, Laura Kells and Meg McAleer, both Processing Archivists at the Library of Congress, describe their workflow for processing manuscript collections, with special focus on how to arrange and describe chaotic collections in order to make them usable by researchers. This session was part of the 2015 ATALM off-site pre-conference workshops and tours held at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC on September 10, 2015.

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Digital Heritage
Community
Sustainable Heritage Network
Category
Archival Processing
Protocol: 
Public Access
Community: 
Sustainable Heritage Network
Category: 
Archival Processing
Keywords: 
accessioning, processing plans, text
Collections: 
2015 ATALM Full Sessions, Archival Processing Video Tutorials, Metadata , 2015 ATALM Resources
Original Date Description: 
9/10/2015
Original Date: 
2015 September 10th
Creator: 
Laura Kells, Meg McAleer
Contributor: 
Academic Outreach and Innovation
Language: 
English
Licensing Options: 
Creative Commons License

Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Publisher: 
Sustainable Heritage Network
Format: 
MP4
Citation: 
Kells, Laura, and Meg McAleer. "The Truth about Original Order, or What to Do When Your Collection Arrives in Trash Cans." Sustainable Heritage Network. Accessed 12 November 2024, sustainableheritagenetwork.org/digital-heritage/truth-about-original-order-or-what-do-when-your-collection-arrives-trash-cans-0