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Appendix K: Reparative Archival Description

Reparative archival description aims to remediate or contextualize potentially outdated or harmful language used in archival description and to create archival description that is accurate, inclusive, and community-centered. The Reparative Archival Description LibGuide provides guiding principles, recommendations, and standardized descriptive notes pertaining to reparative archival description. The LibGuide also includes information on reparative archival description projects at Yale Unversity Library.

‹ Appendix J: Born Digital Archival Description Guidelines up Supplement: Catalog Indexing and Display ›
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Yale University Library Manuscript Cataloging Guidelines

  • Preparation for Cataloging
  • Bibliographic Record
  • MARC Format for Holdings (Mfhd) Record
  • Item Record
  • Authority Record
  • Variable Control Fields
  • 0xx
  • 1xx
  • 2xx
  • 3xx
  • 5xx
  • 6xx
  • 7xx
  • 8xx
  • Appendix A: Single Manuscript Instructions
  • Appendix B: Preliminary Records
  • Appendix C: 006 (Additional Materials Characteristics) Codes
  • Appendix D: Obsolete Fields
  • Appendix E: Local Call Numbers Sequences
  • Appendix F: Reference Sources
  • Appendix G: Voyager Quick Reference
  • Appendix H: Sample Records
  • Appendix I: Sample Training
  • Appendix J: Born Digital Archival Description Guidelines
  • Appendix K: Reparative Archival Description
  • Supplement: Catalog Indexing and Display
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