Publication:

Caring for your collection

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    Authors & editors

    Hodge, Nathanael [Author]
    Cookson, Ronald F [Author]
    Bartram, Elizabeth [Author]

    Publisher The Mills Archive Trust
    Year of publication 2017
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    Medium Book
    Edition2
    Topics

    Arts, culture and heritage > Managing collections

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    The Mills Archive Trust

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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