Finding Aids: From the Basement to the Web

Authors

Elizabeth S. Meagher, University of Denver
Christopher C. Brown, University of DenverFollow
Steven Fisher, University of DenverFollow

Publication Date

2001

Document Type

Article

Organizational Units

University Libraries

Keywords

AACR2, Archival finding aids, Archives, Collaboration, Collection-level records, Manuscript collections, OPAC, URL, World Wide Web

Abstract

This article describes an in-house collaborative partnership that uses the World Wide Web to provide access and value to manuscript collections from university library online catalogs and Archives & Special Collections department Web pages. Collaboration among the archivist, the original cataloger, and a reference librarian resulted in a cataloging template for collection-level bibliographic records. The process for formulating a record is given, as are methods used to establish Web-based finding aids in Hyper-Text Mark-up Language (HTML) and the digitization of existing finding aids.

Recommended Citation

Meagher, E. S., Brown, C. C., & Fisher, S. P. (2001). Finding aids: From the basement to the web. Technical Services Quarterly, 18(2), 41-55. https://doi.org/10.1300/J124v18n02_04