Arrangement and Description of the CERN Archive

This paper describes recent work on the arrangement and description of the CERN Archive. In order to improve access a shelf list was created and then adapted to become a Guide for public use. A functional arrangement was chosen for the Guide, in the hope that this would accommodate ongoing reorganisations and would grow with CERN. A re-evaluation of this approach was carried out 18 months later, and produced several improvements. It also raised a number of questions concerning the theoretical basis for some of the decisions taken about archival arrangement, and suggested ideas for future directions.