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There may be several appropriate levels of description for any given body of archival material. These levels normally correspond to natural divisions based on provenance or physical form. The principle corresponds with the bibliographic concept of analys

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There may be several appropriate levels of description for any given body of archival material. These levels normally correspond to natural divisions based on provenance or physical form. The principle corresponds with the bibliographic concept of analysis, 'the process of preparing a bibliographic record that describes a part or parts of an item for which a comprehensive entry has been made' [citing AACR2 §13.1A].

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APPM2 1989

A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology