The Anatomy of a Record: How Descriptive Standards Provide Building Blocks

Authors

  • Francesca Holyoke
  • Marlene Power

Author Biographies

Francesca Holyoke

Francesca Holyoke is currently describing Lord Beaverbrook's Canadian Correspondence for the Archives and Special Collections Department of the University of New Brunswick Library. Previous archival work includes the cataloguing of the Maritime Pamphlet Collection held at UNB. This led to the publication of an annotated catalogue to the collection. Her library career began after receiving a BA from UNB in 1979, and after a short stint cultivating potato beetles. Following work in the Archives and Special Collections Department, and the Reference Department, she took her MLS from Dalhousie University in 1983.

Marlene Power

Marlene Power is currently describing Lord Beaverbrook's Canadian Correspondence in the Archives and Special Collections Department of the University of New Brunswick Library. She graduated from the University of Waterloo in 1985 with a BA in Religious Studies, and from the University of Toronto in 1987 with a Master of Library Science degree. Since that time she has held contract positions in various libraries, including the Old Manse Library in Newcastle, New Brunswick - Beaverbrook's childhood home.

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Published

1992-07-01

How to Cite

Holyoke, Francesca, and Marlene Power. 1992. “The Anatomy of a Record: How Descriptive Standards Provide Building Blocks”. Archivaria 34 (July):152-65. https://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/11846.

Issue

Archivaria 34: International Congress on Archives (ICA) (Summer 1992)

Section

Studies in Documents

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