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crl-12156	Berner, Richard C.; Bettis, M. Gary	Description of Manuscript Collections; A Single Network System	1969	12	.pdf	application/pdf	6031	345	65	Some of the more typical elements of a guide include: biographical outline of the per- son, or historical sketch of the corpo- rate body; chronology (of major events); genealogy (if clarification is helpful as in the case of family papers); prove- nance, telling about source, organic re- lation to other manuscript groups in col- lection, organic evolution of the pa- pers; description of records (brief phys- Description of Manuscript Collections Narrative description is kept to a minimum, and is concentrated in the guide section of the IjG. THE SYSTEM OF description that is out- lined in this article is based on the fol- lowing elements: 1. that the record items comprising manuscript groups have serial char- acteristics, and that this feature should be the basis of both their ar- rangement and description; 2. that users of manuscript collections normally approach their subject by having previously associated it with names: personal, corporate, and geo- graphical; 3. that this name/ subject association on the part of the researcher is so spe- cific and special as to justify a min- imal effort at subject analysis on the part of the describer; 4. that comprehensive bibliographical control of the manuscript collection as a whole is preferable to a minute bibliographical control of single manuscript items, or of only a frac- tion of the manuscript groups that Mr. Berner is Archivist and Mrs. Bettis is Curator of Manuscripts at the University of Washington Libraries.	cache/crl-12156.pdf	txt/crl-12156.txt