Forms

1. Forms for Patrons
   1. Paging Form
   2. Request for Reproduction of Manuscript Materials
   3. Notification of Intent to Quote from or Publish Manuscript Materials
   4. Notification of Intent to Quote from or Publish Fanny Hurst Materials
2. Forms for Donors
   1. Sample Deed of Gift
3. Agreements for Readers
   1. Basic Contract for Presenters
   2. Recording Contract for Readers
   3. Permission to Record
   4. Consent for Use of Copyrighted Material
4. Oral History Forms
   1. Permission to Interview and Record
   2. Conditional Permission to Interview and Record
5. Administrative Forms
   1. Accession Form
   2. Gifts-in-kind
   3. Loan Agreement
   4. Processing Log

Guidelines for Staff

1. Registration Guidelines
   1. Accession Guidelines
   2. Deaccession Guidelines
   3. Loan Guidelines
   4. Transfer Guidelines
2. Arrangement
   1. Arrangement Guidelines
3. Description
   1. Finding-aids
   2. Indexing
   3. Descriptive Guidelines/Content Standards
      1. ICA Examples
         1. ISAD-G
         2. ISAAR (no link as of yet)
      2. ISO Examples
         1. Dates and Times
      3. SAA Examples
         1. APPM (no link as of yet)
         2. CUSTARD (no link as of yet)
4. Cataloging Guidelines/Record Production
   1. MARC Guidelines
      1. MARC Tagging Guidelines
   2. EAD Guidelines
      1. EAD APEX Conversion Guidelines
      2. EAD XML Template
      3. EAD File Management
5. Digital Production
   1. Flat-Bed Scanning Guidelines
6. Exhibit Guidelines
   1. Exhibit Guidelines
7. Collection Development Guidelines
   1. The Modern Literature Collection
   2. Dated Author-Based Collecting Guides
8. Guidelines for Donation
   1. Donating to The Modern Literature Collection
   2. Gift-in-Kind Guidelines
9. Public Service Guidelines
   1. Paging Guidelines
   2. Rules for Use
10. Manuscript Shelf Listing
    1. Shelf List

Lexicon

1. Archival Terms
2. In-house abbreviations

Links

1. International Council on Archives (ICA maintains ISAD-G and ISAAR. A useful code of ethics is also on their site)
2. Society of American Archivists (With the Library of Congress, they maintain the EAD data transfer format for archival finding-aids.)
3. RLG's guidelines for EAD version 1.0 tagging [superceded by 2.0 guidelines]
4. RLG's page with links to guidelines for EAD version 1.0 and EAD version 2.0 tagging. The 2.0 guidlines are in .pdf format.