When thinking about archives and disaster planning, archivisits must consider how to mitigate theft, loss, and neglect in addition to natural threats
Archival Security Basics
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Disaster and Preservation Planning for Archives
Archivists should create disaster plans that identify risks to people and collections, outline mitigation of risks, and include preservation planning
Reference for Archives
Archival reference is the process of connecting users to primary sources that answer their research questions and is tied to all archivist activities.
Access in Archives, the Fundamentals
Access is the ability to locate relevant information with descriptive tools providing users with archival materials through reference services.
Archival Finding Aids Explained
What are finding aids? Written descriptions archivists produce about collections; they’re frequently encoded using Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
A Deeper Dive into Archival Description
Archival description is a process of creating access tools, usually finding aids or similar guides that allow researchers to browse the collections
Arrangement in Archival Collections
Archivists provide a structure—a framework of knowledge— through arrangement and description, supporting research in collections of enduring value.
Archives and Memory
Archives are institutions that control the past yet are assumed to be impartial, neutral, and objective, but with power over memory, identity, history
Levels of Archival Arrangement—A Primer
As part of archival collections management, archivists continue to use the traditional five levels of arrangement which are still useful; a primer.
The Effect of Technology on Archival Activities
Archival collection development, appraisal, arrangement and description, preservation, and research services have been transformed by technology.
Technology’s Impact on Archives
Technology has changed archival collections management, with dramatic but gradual impact.
Open Source or Proprietary? Weighing Your Archival CMS Options
Many archives use proprietary archival collections management systems; open source can provide an alternative but be aware of hidden costs and risks
The Process of Accessioning in Archives
Archival collections management includes bringing materials in through accessioning, as collections are physically and legally transferred to an archives.
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