Learning Objectives Students will be able to describe the ethical considerations given a particular situation. Students will be able to explain their course of actions and potential consequences of those actions. Scenario You’re a reference archivist at an institution that collects political paper collections. A journalist from a gossip website has asked to see portions …
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Learning Objectives Explain how provenance and original order are useful for organizing records. Describe principles of hierarchical levels of arrangement. Define structure units: fonds, collection, record group, series, subseries, filing unit, item, “component.”” Scenario You’re a new archivist at Zeta University in the processing department. You’ve been assigned to review and arrange three new collections …
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