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Tuesday, March 21, 2017

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This week's term: institutional functional analysis


institutional functional analysis 



n. ~ a technique for appraising and processing materials based on the relative importance of the activities performed within an organization

Related Terms
functional analysis, macroappraisal analysis

Note
Current usage emphasizes appraisal within individual institutions helping to set priorities for processing records.

Category
Appraisal

Cited In
Cook, Terry, “Building an Archives: Appraisal Theory for Architectural Records," The American Archivist 59:2 (Spring 1996): 142–143, n12.

Robyns, Marcus C., and Jason Woolman,Institutional Functional Analysis at Northern Michigan University: A New Process of Appraisal and Arrangement of Archival Records,” The American Archivist 74:1 (Spring/Summer 2011): 247.

Robyns, Marcus C., Using Functional Analysis in Archival Appraisal: A Practical and Effective Alternative to Traditional Appraisal Methodologies (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014): 29.

Samuels, Helen W., Varsity Letters: Documenting Modern Colleges and Universities (Metuchen, NJ, and London: The Society of American Archivists and The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1992): 1.

Xie, Sherry, Functional Analysis, Encyclopedia of Archival Science, edited by Luciana Duranti and Patricia Franks (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015): 219.


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