Year: 1987
Type: article
Abstract: Report and Recommendations of the Canadian Working Group on Archival Descriptive Standards' now seems to be on the desk of every Canadian archivist, and so it should be.Its identification of archival and library functions, of existing archival and library standards and of current practices in archival repositories is invaluable.I have reservations, however, about one issue: the group advocates archival description at the fonds level and makes reference to the writing of Michel Duchein on the definition of fonds, but it offers no critical analysis of Duchein's work, nor does it make equal reference to the relevant and widely debated writing of Australian archivist Peter J. S c ~t t .~
Source: Archivaria
Author: Debra Barr
Language: English
Subfield: Conservation
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1535987537