Resources

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

Setting up a community archive
Useful sources of information
Setting up a website
What you will need to get started
Cataloguing
How to catalogue your collection
Collections care
Caring for your records
Funding
Details of potential funders
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
Looking for advice from a local archivist?
Community Archive Contact List
What support do community archives need?
Summary of findings from a survey in 2007
Jargon Buster
Help with acronyms and glossaries
Copyright, release forms and Data Protection
Advice on copyright, data protection and other Intellectual Property Rights
Digitisation
Advice on digitisation
 

Highlights

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