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Re: Business name changes and collection titles



Hurrah for Sally Childs-Helton for introducing the notion that there might
be standards here that can help to answer the question that Thomas Berry
originally posted. As a profession we seem to take a "seat of the pants"
approach to naming collections, as though names don't have meaning and
consistency isn't useful to end users in understanding the materials to
which we provide access. The terms "records," "papers," and "collection"
have specific meanings defined for use by U.S. archivists in Hensen's APPM
(see 1.1B4). It mystifies me that we don't tend to gravitate to standards
for advice on matters of description, but perhaps that's just my library
school-based archival training? I'd love to hear more discussion on this
from folks who prefer to stick to local practices for description. What do
you see as the benefits of that approach?

Bill

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| Bill Landis
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| The UCI Libraries, University of California
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