Title
Colophons and Annotations: New Directions for the Finding Aid
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 2002
Publication Title
American Archivist
Volume
65
Issue
2
First page number:
216
Last page number:
230
Abstract
The authors argue that finding aids present only singular perspectives of the collections they describe and fail to represent the impact of archivists' work on records and subsequentreinterpretations of collections by archivists and researchers. The authors place these criticisms within the burgeoning postmodern discourse in archival studies and make two concrete suggestions for finding aids that would allow practicing archivists to acknowledge the inherent subjectivity of archival work and to incorporate multiple perspectives into the description of records.
Keywords
Archives – Catalogs; Cataloging of archival materials; Information organization; Libraries – Special collections
Disciplines
Archival Science | Cataloging and Metadata | Library and Information Science
Language
English
Permissions
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Repository Citation
Light, M.,
Hyry, T.
(2002).
Colophons and Annotations: New Directions for the Finding Aid.
American Archivist, 65(2),
216-230.