Good overview of accessioning and cataloguing from the archival ISAD(G) perspective by a professional archivist.
A document from the National Archives which contains useful guidance on physical storage.
A checklist to help you draw up your group’s collection policy, which defines what you seek to acquire and preserve in your archive.
Tips on handling and caring for records.
A toolkit to guide you through the arrangement of an archive collection to make it easy for you to manage, and make available for researchers.
A set of one-page guidelines on topics such as writing a collections policy, your relationship with a donor, and completing an accessions form.
The Community Archive Cataloguing Guidelines. A guide to professional catalogue standards.
A guide to provide a practical introduction to digital preservation for community archives.
Guidance to help you keep your digital content safe for as long as necessary.
Sean Rippington, Digital Archives and Copyright Manager at Special Collections, University of St Andrews Library, gives an introduction for community archives thinking about managing their digital collections.
A step-by-step overview of the digitisation process.
A project planner and handbook to help you develop your digitisation project idea into a comprehensive plan.
A guide that provides an overview of low-cost heritage digitisation and shares inspiring examples.
Guidance on collecting and managing film and videotape with advice on copying and links to Film Archives UK.
A four-part course for beginners on how to film on your mobile phone.
A webinar covering the use of various open-source solutions as well as proprietary software, along with tips from experienced groups about running online catalogues.
Guidance from PC Mag on preparing images, scanning resolution, post-processing etc.
A collection of guides to digitising almost every material including maps, 35mm slides, bound books and photographs.
Free online training course on digital preservation.
Advice and information on archiving and providing access to an oral history project.
This comprehensive and practical 37-page guide includes free and low-budget approaches to digital preservation.
A guide from Norfolk Record Office about how to prolong the lifespan of your archive's collections, protecting them from damage, loss and destruction
Clear guidance about that provides an introduction to oral history recordings.
