Indexing Materials in the Institute for Dialect and Folklore Research at Uppsala, Sweden

Abstract

The Institute for Dialect and Folklore Research (Landsmal- och Folkrninnesarkivet) has about 250 questionnaires which it distributes to field workers. When the sheets they fill out are returned, we place them in envelopes containing only one type of folklore. We stamp a number on every item immediately upon its receipt (the "entrance number"); in the case of larger units, each sheet receives the same collective number. The material then is filed in topographical order for every Swedish province (landskap), and in alphabetical order within these groups, according to the field collectors' names.