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Access points are used to facilitate searching and browsing archival descriptions. The Rules for Archival Description defines access point as "a name, term, etc., by which a descriptive record may be searched and identified." The  

Types of access points could include:

• Subject headings
• Geographic place headings
• Genre/form headings
• Authority records

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Provenance

Dalhousie Libraries documentation

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See Section 4 of the University Archives Procedure Manual for instructions on how to create four types of access points in the Archives Catalogue:

• Create a draft archival authority record
• Procedures for creating genre terms
• Create a geographic place access point
• Subject access points