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Guiding principles for housing and physical storage

Owned by Creighton Barrett
Apr 10, 2018

  1. Archives staff “link” archival descriptions to physical storage locations to facilitate access and storage management.

  2. Physical storage locations are unique identifiers comprised of the following information elements:

    1. Building
    2. Floor
    3. Room
    4. Coordinates (e.g., range or shelf number, cabinet / drawer number)

  3. Physical storage locations of processed fonds and collections are maintained in the Archives Catalogue.

  4. Physical storage locations of unprocessed fonds and collections are maintained in ArchivesSpace. Archival descriptions and accession records are linked to containers, which are then linked to physical locations. 

  5. Physical storage locations should be properly labelled.

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