Efficient Finding Aids

A Usability Study of Online Finding Aid Navigatio" by Rachel Walton

... effective, efficient, and user-valued components for an academic archives' online finding aid ... aids included centralized hyperlinked content, nested ...

Finding Aids – The Library Company of Philadelphia

A number of these Library Company collection finding aids have been prepared through the Mellon-funded, Council for Library and Information Resources (CLIR).

Finding Aids Award - Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference

The MARAC Finding Aid Awards were first given in 1984 for the best finding aids of 1983. Arthur Breton of the Archives of American Art was chair of the first ...

Finding Aids - Collection Descriptions & Inventories

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Finding Aids · Histories along the Blue Ridge

Home > Finding Aids. Finding Aids. What is a finding aid? The Society of the American Archivist defines a finding aid as a tool that facilitates the discovery ...

Creating the Next Generation of Archival Finding Aids - ResearchGate

We detail the design of a search engine for archival finding aids based on an XML database system. The resulting system shows results—which can vary in ...

Better Archival Migration Outcomes with Python and the Google ...

The script defines two file sources for each record: an EAD file of the legacy finding aid (exported from eXist) and a corresponding EAD file ...

How to Use Our Finding Aids - Northeastern University Library

A finding aid describes the holdings and context of a collection of archival records. In our finding aids you will typically find contextual information about ...

Supporting Access to Diverse and Distributed Finding Aids

Supporting Access to Diverse and Distributed Finding Aids: A Final Report to the Digital Library Federation on the Distributed Finding Aid Server Project.

Finding Aids | Abilene Christian University

Center for Restoration Studies Archives, Manuscripts and Personal Papers Finding Aids ... A finding aid is a tool for discovery. Examining a finding aid is the ...

Archival Collection: Finding Aids - Golden Gate - National Park Service

Finding aids contain information on the contents and significance of an archival collection. The finding aid may include descriptive information ...

User Interactions with Electronic Finding Aids in a Controlled Setting

"Finding aid search" and alphabetical list of hyperlinks to finding aids, Search ... finding aids. Participants indicated that the us efficient finding aid usage, ...

Chapter 3. Creating Finding Aids in EAD - The Library of Congress

ISAD(G) is not as specific as EAD with respect to finding aid data, but it offers a useful model for determining both essential elements and the amount of ...

Strategies for Searching Online Finding Aids: A Retrieval Experiment

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Library of Congress Finding Aids: Search/Browse

Search Finding Aids. Search by Keyword. All words, Any words, As a phrase, Finding Aid ID. Entire ...

Archives Research Support - Research & Teaching - Cowles Library

... efficiently, and support in locating relevant materials at ... Finding Aids · Harmful Content Statement · Collections · Exhibits · Research ...

State Agency Finding Aids | NC Archives

Formerly only available in paper format in the Search Room, in some cases the legacy finding aids only provide minimal information or include provisional box ...

UofL Libraries: Getting Started with Archival Research: Home

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SPEC Kit 314: Processing Decisions for Manuscripts & Archives ...

increase use. Once a finding aid has been Googled or crawled by another indexer, use is often immediate. Don't provide access through databases. Don't really ...

ARTICLES Revisiting the Archival Finding Aid - D-Scholarship@Pitt

more effective finding aids, but that in reality most of the implications of utilizing this latest archival descriptive approach are unknown because.