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<address> is legal under <repository>, under <userestrict> and under <odd> <odd> is legal under <archdesc> This should give you a lot of leeway to indicate the location of the reading room at any level of the finding aid. Kate At 10:08 AM 1/28/2011 -0500, MicheleR wrote: >On 1/28/2011 6:48 AM, Jane Stevenson wrote: >>Hi all, >> >>The Archives Hub has a contributor who wants to include the location >>of the reading room in the EAD descriptions. This is because they >>have two separate sites, with some archives at one and some at another, >>but they are both part of the same repository. I don't think there is >>anything within EAD that answers this type of need. > >According to the Tag Library's description of Repository, "When it is >clear that the physical custodian does not provide intellectual access, >use <physloc> to identify the custodian and <repository> to designate the >intellectual caretaker." So I think physloc would be an appropriate choice. > >The description of physloc says, "Information identifying the place where >the described materials are stored, such as the *name or number of the >building*, room, stack, shelf, or other tangible area." That sounds like >exactly what they're looking for. It can go in any <did> so it could be >used at the highest level. > > >>Could you add some kind of identifier for each reading room and then >>let use the stylesheet to display the different locations? > >That would work too -- the plus here being if the address or name ever >changes, a change to the style sheet will update all the finding aids. > >Michele Kate Bowers Collection Services Archivist Harvard University Archives Cambridge, MA 02138 voice: (617) 384-7787 fax: (617) 495-8011 email: [log in to unmask]