Cataloguing
- Arrangement
- Key principles of cataloguing
- The cataloguing process
- Standard descriptions
- Personal data
- Copyright
- Cataloguing step-by-step
- Arrangement and cataloguing example
- Creating a catalogue style guide
- Indexing
- Example cataloguing form
- Making your catalogue available
- Checklist
- Arrangement and cataloguing training video
Checklist
- Assess a collection for easy ways to arrange it into sections, using the principles of provenance and original order
- If the collection has no obvious original order, arrange it by dividing the records into sections that reflect its original functions
- Use these sections as the starting point for the collection level and series level catalogue entries
- When you have time, you can catalogue the collect on further down to its file or item levels, to create more specific catalogue entries
- Label, box and store your newly-catalogued collections and make the catalogue available via your cataloguing software
- Add any research subjects you come across to your archive index, noting down which collection they came from. Later, go through your catalogue records and add in index terms.
