Hello Jay,
If part of the question here is “May I cite the finding aid rather than the archival collection; if so under what circumstances, and how do I cite it?” you may be interested in a previous thread: PCCList Archive (January 2020), where Kate
Bowers replies to a similar question (subject: Question regarding using archives for NARs). Kate summarizes a conversation from a meeting of Harvard Library NACO participants. The sense of the group was that sometimes we would want to cite the finding aid,
and we might do it this way:
Archival resource title, date-date: finding aid $$b (data found) $$u link
if finding aid online
See the full thread for details of our discussion.
Mary Jane Cuneo
Serials cataloging and NACO
Information and Technical Services
Harvard Library
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Subject: Creating names from archival resources
Are there any special procedures for creating a name from an archival source? It’s not practical for me to examine the items. What can I cite as the 670? Example: OCLC
#187949614 for “Alumbaugh, Orvel”. Will
670 Finding aid: $b (Orvel Alumbaugh)
be sufficient?
Jay Shorten
Cataloger, Monographs and Electronic Resources
Associate Professor of Bibliography
Description & Access Department
University Libraries
University of Oklahoma
Co-ordinator, Oklahoma (Tornado) NACO Funnel
Co-owner, PERSNAME-L, the list about personal names in bibliographic and authority records