In Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts, Dennis Meissner provides a solid foundation in the history, theory, and standards supporting arrangement a

Archival and manuscript repositories exist to preserve historical records and make them available for use. The subject of this manual is the internal operations

Intended to provide the basic foundation for modern archival practice and theory.

An archival collection is a unique body of information, created at a particular time by a particular organization or individual as a result of a particular acti