Archives, and How a Collection Is Actually Organised

A library is arranged by subject so you can find a known thing. An archive is arranged by origin so you can understand an unknown thing in context, and searching one like the other is why capable researchers conclude a document does not exist. Finding aids, provenance and original order, the hierarchy from fonds to item, reading-room practice, and what a catalogue's silence means.

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