Caring for your collection

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Accession no. 231907

• Shelf location: A001-MAT
• Notes: Reference guide to accompany the training workshop

Divisions within this publication

• 1: Introduction
• 2: 1. Why, what, who and how?
• 3: 1.1 Why keep records in the first place?
• 4: 1.2 What should we keep?
• 5: 1.3 Who is in charge?
• 6: 1.4 What do we do with the records in our care?
• 7: 2 Arrangement and description
• 8: 2.1 What are archives?
• 9: 2.2 Archives vs Museums
• 10: 2.3 Archives vs Libraries
• 11: 2.3.1 Uniqueness
• 12: 2.3.2 Context
• 13: 2.4 Arrangement.
• 14: 2.4.1 Provenance
• 15: 2.4.2 Original order
• 16: 2.5 Description
• 17: 2.5.1 Why describe archives?
• 18: 2.5.2 What information should be recorded?
• 19: 2.5.3 How to go about cataloguing
• 20: 3 Physical preservation.
• 21: 3.1 Light.
• 22: 3.2 Pollution.
• 23: 3.3 Temperature and Relative Humidity.
• 24: 3.4 Handling.
• 25: 3.5 Packaging.
• 26: 4 Digitisation and online access
• 27: 4.1 Digitisation.
• 28: 4.1.1 Digitisation is not cataloguing
• 29: 4.1.2 You can’t digitise everything
• 30: 4.1.3 Digitisation is not preservation
• 31: 4.2 Digital preservation
• 32: 5 Access
• 33: 5.1 On site access.
• 34: 5.2 Online access.
• 35: 5.2.1 Copyright
• 36: 5.2.2 Privacy
• 37: 5.3 Publicity
• 38: 6 Expanding your collection
• 39: 7 How we can help
• 40: Useful resources
• 41: Glossary