Basic RAD

1. Introduction: What are Arrangement and Description?

2. RAD Explained

2.1. What is RAD?

2.2. What is a Finding Aid?

2.3. What is Multi-Level Description?

2.4. The Six Levels of Description:

.1 The fonds

.2 The sous-fonds

.3 The series

.4 The sub-series

.5 The file

.6 The item

.7 Putting it all together

3. RAD Elements

3.1. What is an element?

3.2. Basic RAD

3.3. A fonds-level description: Tugaske Community College Girls Curling Club

3.4. A series level description: Tugaske Community College Girls Curling Club

3.5. Personal Papers: a fonds-level description

3.6. Location guides and file lists

3.7. Tugaske Community College Girls Curling Club: file list/location guide

4. Multiple Media fonds

5. Basic RAD Quick Reference Sheet

6. Records in Electronic Form

7. Microforms

8. More examples of RAD descriptions

8.1 Fonds-level descriptions

8.2 A multiple-media fonds- and series-level description

9. Afterword

10. Notes

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