Arranging & Describing Collections

Once a collection has been placed at a repository, how does one organize the collection? What principles of arrangement do professional archivists follow? How might those principles change, depending on the collection—i.e. are literary manuscripts handled exactly like correspondence?

Bibliography

• Kathleen Roe, Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2005).
• David W. Carmicheal, Organizing Archival Records: A Practical Method of Arrangement and Description for Small Archives, 2nd ed. (Alta Mira Press, 2003).