Archival Program Advantages
Organizations benefit themselves and the public by preserving records, organizing them, and making them available within and outside the institution.
Advocating for Archives: Tips for Archivists
Archivists can identify advocacy content that fits into customer service interactions, represents the archives’ perspective, and articulates its needs
Offsite Storage for Organizational Archives
Organizational archivists must decide whether archival collections must or should be located in the same facility as the organization; tips, advice
Placing Organizational Archives in Repositories
Archival holdings may need external repositories; archivists must consider how often materials are used and how quickly they are needed when planning.
Public Use of Organizational Archives
Archivists should establish means and protocols for accommodating external researchers who want to consult the organizational collection.
Arrangement and Description; The Value of Archival Labor
Archivists refine the arrangement (processing) of archival materials, rehouse material, and create inventories to facilitate future access
Records Disposition for Archives
Creating a records retention schedule should be one of the archivists’ first tasks after an archival assessment.
Safe Storage for Archival Preservation
Many organizations have no room to store archival collections, so vigilance is needed to protect rare and fragile materials, especially audiovisual
Archives Assessment Questions
An assessment of archival collections assists in strategically meeting user needs, allocating resources effectively, and securing funding.
Assessing the Archives Program
Professional archival principles and standards are developed over decades; each organization adheres to them in its own way.
Building Support for Archival Programs
Whatever an archival program’s shape, archivists should enlist all possible stakeholders’ input at inception to build foundation for long-term success.
Preserving Organizational History
Organizations need to retain certain records beyond current needs according to regulatory, legal, financial, and operational requirements.
Records and Archival Management within Organizations
An archival program allows archivists to identify, save, and retrieve necessary information while safely removing unnecessary material.
Leading with Organizational Archives
People who lead with history understand that storytelling about the past can shape the future. Organizational archives help leaders manage effectively.
Email Management and Archiving
Archivists and records managers should be concerned with email; a significant percentage of an organization’s unstructured records pass through email
Data Warehouses and Decision Support Systems; A Primer
A data warehouse is a repository of an organization’s electronically stored data, designed to facilitate reporting and analysis.
Deciding Records Retention Parameters: A Primer
Archivists and records managers determine retention based on compliance with external or internal requirements and identifiable community expectations.
Records Retention for Archivists, Records Managers, and Knowledge Managers
Records guidelines provide recommended standards for records retention; implementation is based on usefulness or on risks of maintenance/destruction.
Inactive Storage of Electronic Records; Tips for Archivists & Records Managers
Archivists and records managers make sure that offline records aren’t forgotten, regular retentions are applied, and records remain useable.
Authenticity, Reliability, Integrity, and Usability
To effectively create and capture records, archivists need to decide on several issues at the organizational or business process level.
Archival Preservation Options
A preservation program requires policies, procedures, processes, and the right technologies. A mixed strategy based on organizational needs is best
The Minnesota Method Explained
The Minnesota Method appraisal model is labor-intensive but less political than others. It is a transparent methodology for making appraisal decisions
Introduction to Macro-Appraisal
The benefits of macro-approach include providing context and forcing a planned rather than a random approach to archival management.
Archival and Records Management Preservation
Archivists and records managers face digital preservation challenges. No permanent solution to digital preservation; medium-term solutions are safe.
Deciphering Archival Software Solutions
Archivists manage information about their collections with a number of different software solutions, which may have overlapping functionalities.
