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Establishing An Archives

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▪  General Resources

▪  Mandate Statements/Policies

▪  Case Studies

▪  Publications

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Revised February 2010   MH

GENERAL RESOURCES  (online)

Guidelines for College and University Archives

(Society of American Archivists, 2005)

Archives: what to do when the filing cabinet is full?
(Association of Manitoba Archives, 2002)

Institutional Guidelines for Archives
(Canadian Council of Archives, 2001)

Developing an Archives in your Community: Useful projects

(Archives Association of Ontario, Archives Advisor's Notebook, 1999)

Benefits of a Community Archives

(Archives Association of Ontario, Archives Advisor's Notebook, 1999)

Total Archives

(Archives Association of Ontario, Archives Advisor's Notebook, 1999)

Chapter 1: Getting Started: Your Archival Organization / Laura Coles

Chapter 2: Resources: People, Facilities and Money / Laura Coles

A Manual for Small Archives

(Archives Association of British Columbia, 1988)

MANDATE STATEMENTS AND POLICIES  (online)

Archives: UVic Archives Collections Policy

(University of Victoria Archives, 2007)

Corporate Records Management Program Bylaw

(City of Richmond Archives, 2002)

Policies

(City of Coquitlam Archives, 2001)

Archives Mandate and Policy Statement

(Revelstoke Museum and Archives, 2000)

Archives, Recorded Information Management, and Freedom of Information and

Protection of Privacy - Policies and Procedures

(Simon Fraser University, 1997)

Your Archives Policy / Sample Archives Policy

Chapter 1: Getting Started: Your Archival Organization / Laura Coles,

A Manual for Small Archives
(Archives Association of British Columbia, 1988)

CASE STUDIES  (online)

Crofton House School Archives / Victoria Blinkhorn

(AABC Newsletter, Winter 1996, pp. 5-6)

Mission Community Archives / Valerie Billesberger

(AABC Newsletter, Winter 1995, p. 13)

Working Cooperatively for a Sustainable Future: The Nanaimo Experience / Jane Turner

(Paper given at the AABC Conference, 1994)

PUBLICATIONS  (for sources click here)

Building a Successful Archival Programme / Marisol Ramos, Alma C. Ortega

(Chandos Publishing, U.K., 2006)

Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives: A How-To-Do-It Manual (How-to-Do-It Manuals

for Libraries, No. 122) / Gregory S. Hunter

(Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2 Sub edition, October 2003)

Institutional Guidelines for Small Archives

(Canadian Council of Archives, 2001)

Starting an Archives / Elizabeth Yakel

(Scarecrow Press Inc., 1994)

Available in paperback and Kindle versions

Corporate Archives and History: Making the Past Work /Arnita A. Jones and Philip L. Cantelon (eds)

(Krieger Publishing Company, 1993)

The Management of College and University Archives / William J. Maher
(Society of American Archivists and Scarecrow Press Inc., 1992)

Museum Archives: An Introduction / William A. Deiss
(Society of American Archivists, 1984)

Native American Archives: An Introduction / John A. Fleckner

(Society of American Archivists, 1984)

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