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Crossing the line: the development of archival standards

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Jennifer Cooknell
Jennifer Cooknell*
Affiliation:
Archive Section, Corporate Affairs, The Royal Bank of Scotland, 36 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh EH2 2YB, UK
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Abstract

For many years the archive profession in the United Kingdom has tended to view highly structured cataloguing rules as a constraint, redundant in the light of the unique material with which it deals. Times are changing however and, with the advent of three new standards over the past six years, archivists are beginning to recognise that, far from being the straitjacket they had previously imagined, such standards do in fact provide the key to freedom in the brave new world of information technology opportunities.

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Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , 1999 , pp. 26 - 30
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1999

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