Finding aid

As a repertory (from Latin reperire " ( to ) see ", " discover ", " identify " ) or finding aid is referred to in the archives a handwritten or typewritten directory of the archive of an archive.

Card indexes and repertories are results of archival description and distortion. They serve as finding aids or Find aids. Research tools are increasingly being created as databases in archival description systems and then deployed in the reading room or on the Internet as an online finding aids.

In academic parlance is referred to comprehensive directories as repertories. Especially in the 19th century, the term repertory was occasionally used as a journal title. An example is edited by Emil Jacobsen Chemical-technical repertory.

Elements of a finding aid

A completed finding aid typically contains a detailed preface to the history of the stock and a description of the evaluation, planning and Verzeichnungsarbeiten. The archives are usually listed with signature, title, term, and a contents note. The entries are grouped by a classification. Often it makes sense to supplement the finding aid or by property, location and person indexes. Had the documents prior to their transfer into the archive already a serial number, eg, by a filing plan, they will be compared in a separate directory, the concordance, the archive signatures.

Special inventory

A special inventory ( also called special finding aid ) is a finding aid describing archival materials to a specific question, but are located in different archives. In some cases, such a finding aid also contains references to sources which are in museums, libraries or other documentation facilities.

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