As archival material is “unpublished”, most collections lack formal titles and therefore archives staff will usually supply the title.Main source of information: materials themselves, accession and donor records
Content reference:
DACS 2.3
Output fields:
EAD: The <unittitle> element is comparable
MARC: 245 $a
AS user manual: The title assigned to the resource.
MIT Practice: Most resource records for MIT are at a “collection” level with any description applying to an aggregate of materials. However, since archivists describe at all levels, a resource record occasionally could theoretically represent only an item. Titles also need to be transcribed or supplied at other levels (for series, folder (file), and item components in a container list and standards for all these levels are listed below.
Title is required for resource records. At the resource level, the title is usually a concatenation of the creator name and a term describing the form of materials, whether general (papers, records) or specific (correspondence, diaries).
Titles are used in the resource record in three places - all three should match: