Abstract
The Trinity College Archives has recently accessioned papers from one of its notable alumni, Michael Ignatieff. His international career as a writer, professor, and politician means that his papers exist in multiple archives around the world and will likely never be reunited. In the face of this reality, this paper proposes that Ignatieff’s materials at the Trinity College Archives should not be organized into a fonds. New interpretations of fonds, provenance, and original order justify the creation of two distinct collections: one for Ignatieff’s professional materials, and one for his personal papers. A system of metadata tags should be used to identify the relationships between items in these two collections and would allow the Archives to integrate the materials with othersin their collection.
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