Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives
Dr Gregory S Hunter
Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives
Dr Gregory S Hunter
Since its original publication, no text has served as a better overview of the field of archives than Hunter’s manual. Newly revised and updated to thoroughly address our increasingly digital world, it remains the most comprehensive guide to the discipline.
Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives covers such key topics as:
a history of archives, including the roles of historical societies
and local history collections in libraries new sections on community archives, diversity, and inclusion conducting a survey and starting an archival program selection, appraisal, acquisition, accessioning and deaccessioning important points of copyright, privacy and ethics arrangement of archival collections, with a discussion of new
theories description, including DACS, EAD and tools such as ArchivesSpace access, reference, and outreach, with a look at how recent
innovations in finding aids can help researchers preservation, including guidance on how to handle rare books, maps,
architectural records and artefacts digital records disaster planning, security, and theft prevention metrics, assessment, establishing employee procedures and policies,
working with interns and volunteers and other managerial duties public relations and marketing, from social media and the Web to
advocacy and professional guidelines and codes such as the newly developed SAA
Statement of Core Values of Archivists.
Providing in-depth coverage of both theory and practice, this manual is essential for archivists at all levels of experience and of all backgrounds.
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