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Description of Archival Material enables the archive’s proper preservation and guides future users by providing important contextual information. The content of an archive needs to be described in a way that will allow anyone to search for, locate, and access items in the collection, thereby enabling connections to be established between items, even from different groups. Simply put, without description, an archive would be more like simple storage in which it would eventually become impossible to find or manage content.