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Introductory advice on archival issues
This is a list of accessible sources of advice on a range of issues relating to the use, management and care of archives.
Archival research techniques and skills
An introduction to oral history
- Oral History Society practical advice:
Storing archives
- Basic guide to caring for personal records
- Guide to the storing of archives:
www.britishrecordsassociation.org.uk/publication_pages/Guidelines1.htm
- Download as PDF document (PDF, 47.92kb)
Principles of conservation and preservation
- Basic preservation guidelines for library and archive collections
- General preservation guidelines
- Preservation of Photographic Material
http://www.bl.uk/services/npo/publicationsleaf.html
- Basic principles of Film and Video preservation:
www.bufvc.ac.uk/faf/guidance.htm
Writing a collecting policy
- Download as PDF document (PDF, 40.16kb)
Copyright and data protection
- Timothy Padfield, Copyright for Archivists and Users of Archives (London, Facet, 2004)
Information Commissioner´s advice on Data Protection
Managing digitisation
- Managing the Digitisation of Library, Archive and Museum Materials:
http://www.bl.uk/services/npo/publicationsleaf.html
Managing objects
- Guidance for exhibiting archive and library material
http://www.bl.uk/services/npo/publicationsleaf.html
- Guidance for loans or deposit of records
- Download as PDF document (PDF, 84.53kb)
Basic archival cataloguing principles
- Download as PDF document (PDF, 87.74kb)
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