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RAD, MAD, and APPM: The search for Anglo-American standards for archival description

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  1. “Report of the Working Group on Standards for Archival Description,”American Archivist, 52:4 (Fall 1989), p. 442.

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  2. Giving the archival world its equivalent of the library world’s “Paris Principles,” one must suppose. But, “Hohr Grenzhausen Principles?” One wishes that these deliberations could have been held in a location with a more euphonious name.

  3. International Council on Archives, “Statement of Principles Regarding Archival Description adopted by the Ad Hoc Commission on Descriptive Standards, Hohr Grenzhausen, Germany, October, 1990, p.3.

  4. Planning Committee on Descriptive Standards, Bureau of Canadian Archivists, Rules for Archival Description, Ottawa, 1990. (hereafter RAD)

  5. Michael Cook and Margaret Proctor, Manual of Archival Description, 2d edition, Gower, Brookfield, Vt., 1989. (hereafter MAD)

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  8. Ibid., p. 10.

  9. Ibid., p. 11.

  10. RAD, p. xiii.

  11. Ibid., p. xv

  12. For example, it is infinitely more important for the scholar working in Berkeley to know that Henry Stimson’s papers are at Yale and that those papers contain detailed diaries than it is for him to know that the diaries are in containers x-y at shelf location z.

  13. MAD, p. xii.

  14. Ibid., p. xii.

  15. Ibid., p. xiii.

  16. Ibid., p. xiii.

  17. This makes all the more curious some advertising brochures that Gower, MAD’s publisher, has distributed which imply that MAD virtually replaces AACR2 for the purposes of archival description.

  18. MAD, p. xiii.

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Hensen, S.L. RAD, MAD, and APPM: The search for Anglo-American standards for archival description. Archives and Museum Informatics 5, 2–5 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02860107

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