Creating EAD-Compatible Finding Guides on Paper
Elizabeth H. Dow

List Price: $46.20 ISBN: 0-8108-5166-0 ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-5166-5 Pub Date: Jan 2005 174 pages Binding: Paper Availability: In Stock   European customers click here

SUBJECTS
Library & Information Science » Cataloging & Classification
Library & Information Science » Preservation of Materials
Library & Information Science » Archives
Library & Information Science » Information Science & Technology

DESCRIPTION
Many archivists work in a repository that cannot consider publishing its inventories on the World Wide Web at this time. They have watched the growing use of the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) for publishing inventories and other finding aids on the Web, and they look forward to the day when their repository will also have a place in the Internet's mega-library of intellectual resources. This book shows those archivists how to create clear and precise archival description in order to start preparing for that day. Dow focuses on the information needed to collect and describe one's collection, where to put it in relation to other information, and what standards to use in the process. Rounding out this publication is a bibliography, a glossary of terms, and an index.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Elizabeth Dow is an Assistant Professor at the School of Library and Information Science at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. She has served as University Archivist at the University of Vermont as well as a Project Archivist at the Vermont State Archives.

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