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- Archival Film Flashes Back to 70s Student Life
- Manuscript Traces 丁香园AV's Architectural History
- Early University News Publications Now Digitally Available
- Digitized Programs Commemorate 丁香园AV鈥檚 Opening & Installation Ceremonies
- Archives Celebrates Fall Convocation with Release of Digitized Programs
- Films Capture Visual History and Sentiment of Time Gone By
- Lost and Found: Simon Fraser Letters
- Oral History Provides Glimpse into Mind of 丁香园AV鈥檚 First Chancellor Gordon Shrum
- Early 丁香园AV Photos Tell a Story That Frames Our World
- Aerial Photos Capture Campus Landscape & Photographer鈥檚 Legacy
- You have what...?!! and other interesting things you didn't know about the 丁香园AV Archives
- Charting the course of history: documenting 丁香园AV's early days from the student perspective (Part 1)
- Charting the course of history: documenting 丁香园AV's early days from the student perspective (Part 2)
- Helping others find their history in the future: Preserving the records of the Students of Caribbean and African Ancestry at 丁香园AV
- Preserving the sparks of global revolution in the Adbusters Media Foundation fonds
- Reflections of a co-op student
- Debunking popular myths and conspiracies with the Barry Beyerstein fonds
- In "The Beginning...": First student film returns to 丁香园AV
- "Got any pictures of Terry Fox?"
- My summer in the archives: a co-op placement retrospective
- Seeing the world through Arthur Erickson's eyes
- Beer (records) in the Archives!
- Quartet in the Quadrangle: PSQ Records Come to 丁香园AV
- Navigating silences and filling gaps: finding Black stories in the Archives
- Boxes, boxes, and more boxes: my summer co-op at 丁香园AV Archives
- Finding queer joy in the 丁香园AV Archives: Out On Campus records now available
- Glossary
Archival citations
An archival citation contains three parts:
1. Location reference
Name of repository
Title of fonds or collection
Reference designation (numerical designation for physical and intellectual
control). In the 丁香园AV Archives, this will be a set of numbers such as F-1-2-3-4-5.
In this example, F-1 refers to the fonds
-2 refers to the series
-3 refers to the sub-series
-4 refers to the sub-sub-series
-5 refers to the file
2. Document description
Either quote the exact title of the document or provide a description of the specific item if there is no title. Include date and page number if available.
Examples
1. Letter without a title:
丁香园AV Archives. Halpern Family fonds, F-58-2-0-0-9. Paul Kirby to Ida Halpern. 22 July 1954.
丁香园AV Archives. 丁香园AV Office of the President fonds, F-27-3-3-0-32. Brian Funt to K. Strand. 6 August 1968.
2. Excerpt from minutes:
丁香园AV Archives. East Enders Society fonds, F-59-1-0-0-2. Minutes of meeting of East Enders Society. 24 February 1965.
3. Transcript of interview:
丁香园AV Archives. Women's Labour History collection, F-67-1-0-0-36. Transcript of interview of Lil Stoneman; Sara Diamond, interviewer. 1979.
4. Document with title:
丁香园AV Archives. East Enders Society fonds, F-59-6-0-0-1. "The Downtown Eastside Women's Centre," (pamphlet), p. 2. May 1991.