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Scope: This document lists the fields that are required, or required if applicable, under the current rules for cataloging manuscript and archival collections, Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS).
Because RMC is now doing its collection-level cataloging of these collections in ArchivesSpace, which does not use MARC, the MARC tags previously included in this Procedure have been deleted.
Contact: Margaret Nichols Jaime Groetsema
Unit: LTS Special Materials RMC
Date last reviewed: August 2024
Date of next review: August 20252026
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Note:
DACS rules are intended to apply to finding aids as well as catalog records. Fields whose names are in boldface below are required in all DACS records.
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