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Thought this might be interesting.
Historical Manuscripts Commission 2002 Survey of Archive Cataloguing
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> Problems [.pdf]
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> <a
href='http://www.hmc.gov.uk/pubs/cataloguingsurvey.pdf'>http://www.hmc.gov.uk/pubs/catalog
uingsurvey.pdf</a>
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> Authored by Christopher Kitching, the director of the Historical
> Manuscripts
>
> Commission in the United Kingdom, this 16-page report details the
> existing
>
> problems (along with offering potential remedies) involved with archive
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> cataloguing throughout the country. Some of Mr. Ktichings' findings
> include
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> the fact that many archive repositories have significant cataloguing
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> backlogs and that material of great national and local heritage
> significance
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> (stretching back to the Middle Ages) also remains uncatalogued and
> unusable
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> by researchers. Mr. Kitching also concludes that the decline in the
> number
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> of catalogues reaching the National Register of Archives is in fact due
> to
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> the declining pace of cataloguing in repositories, rather than being a
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> function of the HMC's ability to acquire already extant catalogues.
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> by Christopher Kitching, the director of the Historical
>
> Manuscripts<BR> Commission in the United Kingdom, this 16-page
> report
>
> details the existing<BR> problems (along with offering potential
> remedies)
>
> involved with archive<BR> cataloguing throughout the country. Some
> of Mr.
>
> Ktichings' findings include<BR> the fact that many archive
> repositories
>
> have significant cataloguing<BR> backlogs and that material of
> great
>
> national and local heritage significance<BR> (stretching back to
> the Middle
>
> Ages) also remains uncatalogued and unusable<BR> by researchers.
> Mr.
>
> Kitching also concludes that the decline in the number<BR> of
> catalogues
>
> reaching the National Register of Archives is in fact due
> to<BR> the
>
> declining pace of cataloguing in repositories, rather than being
>
> a<BR> function of the HMC's ability to acquire already extant
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