n.the succession of entities that held a certain body of archival materialsChatfield 1965, 106In chapter III we are given the custodial history of the archives for the period 1550–1960.Kinney 1989, 152This article traces the custodial history of land district records for the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota from their creation in the nineteenth century to their availability and use today.Meissner 1990, 50, fn. 4After 1978 the acquisitions leveled off as MHS shifted from an acquisitive to a managerial phase in its custodial history.MacNeil 2005, 273Custodial history, for example, is an element of description in the American, Canadian, and international data content standards.Millar 2006b, 70She outlines the scope and content of the records and explains their custodial history, includes information about the acquisition and original arrangement of the records, and outlines the origins and history of the agency and the program.Bearman and Duff 2006, 276Traditional archival description attempts to preserve the evidential value of records by documenting the context of their creation and accumulation through administrative or biographical sketches as well as custodial histories and arrangement notes.
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Custodial history can be used to describe both physical possession and intellectual ownership and to provide details of changes of ownership or custody that are significant in terms of authority, integrity, and interpretation.
