Practicum deliverable: DACS description elements
Due: 4/10
Total points: 5
Please submit archival description for the Video Collection (at COLLECTION LEVEL ONLY) in the following categories, following DACS rules and QC SCA house style:
- Title (DACS 2.3)
- Creator (DACS 2.6): official name
- Administrative/biographical history note (DACS 2.7): more comprehensive contextual information about records creator
- Examples:
- Pratt Records of the Department of Exhibitions (under “Biographical / Historical)
- Columbia University Department of Zoology records, 1900-1942 (under “Historical Note”)
- Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Records, 1937-2008 (under “Historical note”)
- Examples:
- Related materials (DACS 6.3): other collections/repositories associated with this collection, both at QC and, if relevant, elsewhere
- Subjects/access points:
- QC SCA ArchivesSpace Guide: review section on “Subjects”
- QC SCA finding aid repository, “Subjects” (review this list first for local vocabulary and an idea of what SCA commonly applies)
- Library of Congress Authorities, Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Scope and contents (DACS 3.1):
- Examples:
- City University of New York Board of Higher Education Minutes (extremely short scope)
- New-York Historical Society Library Department Records (more comprehensive scope)
- Examples:
- Date (DACS 2.4)
- Extent (DACS 2.5)
- Access: use as many of the below elements as needed
- Immediate source of acquisition (DACS 5.2)
- Accruals (DACS 5.4)
Include 200-500 word reflection.