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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Description and instantiation are different things. Describing the content is not equal to what boxes the content ends up in. Correct? But something isn’t making sense
to me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I wanted to describe a collection at the series level, so in the instances, I chose my top container, but I have four boxes for my first series, so my container type
is “Box” and I put 1-4 for my indicators, but this doesn’t calculate four document cases, does it? Doesn’t it only calculate 1?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">But if I make four instances, that looks stupid. See below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><img width="550" height="30" style="width:5.725in;height:.3083in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D2C972.24DFD7F0"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">It also results in a finding aid that looks like this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><img width="554" height="103" style="width:5.7666in;height:1.075in" id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D2C972.24DFD7F0"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">If I do this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><img width="546" height="83" style="width:5.6916in;height:.8666in" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image004.jpg@01D2C972.24DFD7F0"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I’m really describing at a file level, which I don’t want to do.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">What am I not understanding?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#002244">Joan Curbow</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#90A4B7">Reference Librarian and Archivist</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#90A4B7">Buena Vista University Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#90A4B7">Buena Vista University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#90A4B7">610 West Fourth Street<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#90A4B7">Storm Lake, Iowa 50588</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#90A4B7">712.749.2094<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#90A4B7">www.library.bvu.edu</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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