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The AABC Archivist's Toolkit: Establishing an Archives

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• Mandate Statements/Policies
• Case Studies
• Publications

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Revised 2012

GENERAL RESOURCES  (online)

Guidelines for College and University Archives (Society of American Archivists, 2005)

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

Chapter 1: Getting Started: Your Archival Organization / Laura Coles. A Manual for Small Archives (Archives Association of British Columbia, 1988)

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, 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)

PUBLICATIONS 

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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)