Basic RAD
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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