The documents created or received and accumulated by a person or organization in the course of the conduct of affairs, and preserved because of their continuting value.
Definition from A Glossary for Archivists, Manuscript Curators, and Records managers / compiled by Lewsie J. Bellardo and Lynn Lady Bellardo. (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1992)
Document
Recorded information regardless of medium or characteristics.
Definition from A Glossary for Archivists, Manuscript Curators, and Records managers / compiled by Lewsie J. Bellardo and Lynn Lady Bellardo. (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1992)
Record
A document created or received and maintained by an agency, organization, or indvidual in pursuance of legal obligations or in the transaction of business.
Definition from A Glossary for Archivists, Manuscript Curators, and Records managers / compiled by Lewsie J. Bellardo and Lynn Lady Bellardo. (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1992)
Personal Papers
The private documents accumulated by or belongng to an individual and subject to his/her disposition.
Definition from A Glossary for Archivists, Manuscript Curators, and Records managers / compiled by Lewsie J. Bellardo and Lynn Lady Bellardo. (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1992)
Finding Aid
The descriptive tool produced to establish physical control and/or intellectual control over records and/or archival materials. Finding Aids can include databases, inventories, catalogs, indexes and container lists.
Definition from A Glossary for Archivists, Manuscript Curators, and Records managers / compiled by Lewsie J. Bellardo and Lynn Lady Bellardo. (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1992)
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