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Edited by Kris Kiesling and Christopher J. Prom; featuring modules by Cory Nimer, Kelcy Shepherd, Katherine M. Wisser, and Aaron Rubinstein
Putting Descriptive Standards to Work is another installment in the series Trends in Archives Practice and consists of the following four modules:
As Kris Kiesling of the Minnesota Historical Society notes in her superb introduction, "Description is the foundation of archival work. Everything else archivists do — providing research assistance, teaching about archives and their subject matter, mounting exhibitions, developing documentation strategies, and even selecting collections and items for digitization — flows from good descriptive work."
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". . . articulate, insightful, and, indeed, user-oriented, asset for archivists in numerous contexts. . . . does a masterful job of affirming how this vital element of archival practice demands both attention to present challenges and consideration of future needs to 'serve society’s perpetual memory.'"—Archival Issues 39:21 (2018)
"All four [modules] are appropriate for students learning about the archival profession as the authors successfully make technical concepts digestible for students and archivists less familiar with these areas. Through their documentation of these topics, the authors have made a valuable contribution to archival literature."—Journal of North Carolina Archivists 15 (2018)
". . . a very good introduction to those standards which are dominant in practice today and to contemporary technologies capable of supporting even richer archival description."—Archifacts (2018)