Resources

Information, guidance and useful links for community archives. Please contribute to this section.

What support do community archives need?
Responses to our survey
Jargon Buster
Help with acronyms and glossaries
Copyright and Data Protection
Advice on copyright, data protection and other Intellectual Property Rights
Digitisation
Advice on digitisation
Advice on archival issues
From the Community Access to Archives project
Cataloguing
How to list archives
Collections care
Caring for your records
Funding
Details of potential funders
How to set up a group
Useful sources of information
Impact of community archives
A 2006 report on the social impact of community archives, with case-studies and helpsheet
Links
Useful organisations
Oral History
Advice and resources
Promoting/publicising the group's work
How to promote your group
Research
Useful resources
Setting up a website
What you will need to get started

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