Advice on archival issues

From the Community Access to Archives project

The following list of sources of advice was originally compiled by the Community Access to Archives project.

Archival research techniques and skills
http://arts-scheme.co.uk/

An introduction to oral history
Oral History Society practical advice:
www.oralhistory.org.uk/advice

Storing archives

• Basic guide to caring for personal records
• Guide to the storing of archives:
  www.britishrecordsassociation.org.uk/publication_pages/Guidelines1.htm
• Basic guide to disaster planning:
  Download as PDF document (49kb)

Principles of conservation and preservation

• Basic preservation guidelines for library and archive collections
• General preservation guidelines and
• 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
Archive collection policy statements: checklist of suggested contents
Download as PDF document (39kb)

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 and
• Terms of loan (deposit) for privately owned archives:
  Download as PDF document (44kb)
• Basic archival cataloguing principles: Standards and guidelines

Applying for grant aid
Download as PDF document (103kb)