"NISTF II" and EAD: The evolution of archival description

American Archivist

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 284-296

  Hensen, Steven L ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000921831     PISSN: 03609081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17723/aarc.60.3.y833n78003316620     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. 'NISTF was formed in 1977 by the Society of American Archivists with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Its members consisted of Richard Lytle, chair, and David Bearman, project director, both of the Smithsonian Institution; Maynard Brichford, University of Illinois; John Daly, Illinois State Archives; Charles Dollar, National Archives and Records Administration; Larry Dowler, Yale University; Max Evans, State Historical Society of Wisconsin; Steven Hensen, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress; Tom Hickerson, Cornell University; Charles Palm, Stanford University; and Nancy Sahli, National Historical Publications and Records Commission. For a detailed summary of the work of NISTF, see Richard Lytle, "An Analysis of the Work of the National Information Systems Task Force," American Archivist 47 (Fall 1984): 357-65.
2. Elaine Engst, "Standard Elements for the Description of Archives and Manuscript Collections," unpublished report delivered to the National Information Systems Task Force, 1979.
3. H. Thomas Hickerson, "Archival Information Exchange: Developing Compatibility," in Academic Libraries: Myths and Realities, Proceedings of the Third National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, edited by Suzanne C. Dodson and Gary L. Menges (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 1984), 64.
4. This section is based on an earlier article: Steven L. Hensen, "The Use of Standards in the Application of the AMC Format," American Archivist 49 (Winter 1986): 33.
5. Oliver W. Holmes, "Archival Arrangement-Five Different Operations at Five Different Levels," American Archivist 27 (January 1964): 21.
6. Max Evans, "Authority Control: An Alternative to the Record Group Concept," American Archivist 49 (Summer 1986): 249-61.
7. Terry Abraham, "Oliver W. Holmes Revisited: Levels of Arrangement and Description in Practice," American Archivist 54 (Summer 1991): 371.
8. "Distinctions such as these were first identified in an archival context through the work of the Working Group on Standards for Archival Description (WGSAD). The reports of this group can be found in American Archivist 52 (Fall 1989): 431-537
9. and in Standards for Archival Description; A Handbook (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1994).
10. 'See, for example, Steven L. Hensen, "The Use of Standards in the Application of the AMC Format," 31-40 (from a paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists, Washington, D.C., 1984)
11. also reprinted in A Sourcebook on Standards Information: Education, Access, and Development, edited by Steven M. Spivak and Keith A. Winsell (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1991);
12. and Steven L. Hensen, "Squaring the Circle: The Reformation of Archival Description in AACR2," Library Trends 36 (Winter 1988): 539-52.
13. '"Steven L. Hensen, Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts: A Cataloging Manual for Archival Repositories, Historical Societies, and Manuscript Libraries (Washington, D.C., 1983) (hereafter "APPM").
14. "Steven L. Hensen, Archives, Personal Papers, and Manuscripts: A Cataloging Manual for Archival Repositories, Historical Societies, and Manuscript Libraries, 2d ed. (Chicago: Society of American Archivists 1989) (hereafter "APPM2").
15. t2APPM2, 4 (Rule 0.7).
16. "APPM, 1.
17. "APPM2, 5 (Rule 0.11).
18. 'Richard Pearce-Moses, "AACR2000," message to LCSH-AMC listserv, 3/10/95 3:39 P.M.
19. '""Collection-Level Cataloging at the Library of Congress," Library of Congress Information Bulletin (9 September 1991)
20. and Cataloging Service Bulletin, No. 53 (Summer 1991).
21. USMARC field 856, "Electronic Location and Access," is designed to provide an electronic address (e.g., a URL or ftp address) for a digital representation of the material or item described in the catalog record or to additional information about the material or item. "The information identifies the electronic location containing the resource or from which it is available. It also contains information to retrieve the resource by the access method identified in the first indicator position.. . . The information contained in this field is sufficient to allow for the electronic transfer of a file, subscription to an electronic journal, or logon to an electronic resource" .