تنظيم و توصيف منابع آرشيوي (با تاكيد بر فهرست هاي راهنما)

Archival Arrangement and Description (With an Emphasis on Finding Aids)

Arrangement and description of records and the creation of finding aids are at the heart of all archival work. This article explains the five principles of archival arrangement, levels of arrangement and description, Principle ofProvenance, original order, moderate degree of order, and organizational resources. Afterwards, it focuses on the importance ofdescribing the content of archival resources using finding aids. Finding aids are introduced as a means of managerial supervision and archival description and are divided into three categories: internal supervision tools, intra-organizational referential indexes, and extra-organizational referential indexes. The last group is itself divided to calendars, checklists, indexes, and information network systems. Finally the standards for arranging and describing records are discussed.