Filing cabinet course

The figure of the filing cabinet maker is that professional figure in charge of sorting, updating and conserving a filing cabinet, a set of operations, through which a series of information is collected and sorted and organized into catalogs or inventories. The filing operation, up to the entry into use of electronic processors, was drawn up on paper supports of variable shapes (for example according to the Staderini system), which were later organized according to scientific criteria, aimed at the production of accompanying tools ( inventories) specific. Today with electronic computers, through particular applications, it is possible to provide a vast range of information useful to researchers with greater simplicity. L' an operation that technically passes under the name of filing, can be carried out in different areas. Another type of filing can be that carried out in the archival field. Technically, the operation represents the initial phase for an approach to the papers of an unordered archive, in order to collect all the information that will contribute to the subsequent drafting of an analytical inventory. In this particular form, the chronological details of the documents, the object, ancient signatures, or classifications, notes of the apparatus concerning any situations of precarious conservation of the paper supports will be noted. More commonly, a cataloging of a collection of books is carried out, where it is therefore possible to create a series of cards, with precise indications relating to the essential elements of the book: author, title, date and place of edition, number of pages, illustrations (if any). Later this information can be organized in catalogs: alphabetical by authors, by subjects, by places of publication or chronological.