In Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts, Dennis Meissner provides a solid foundation in the history, theory, and standards supporting arrangement a

Access and reference services are central to engaging with historical resources. As more people encounter archives for scholarly and avocational research, as pa

Archives are considered to be collections of administrative, legal, commercial and other records or the actual place where they are located. They have become ub

Archival and manuscript repositories exist to preserve historical records and make them available for use. The subject of this manual is the internal operations