The AABC Archivist's Toolkit: Establishing an Archives

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GENERAL RESOURCES

Preserving Communities: A Guide to Archiving for Community Organizations

Guidelines for College and University Archives

Institutional Guidelines for Archives

A Manual for Small Archives, Chapter 1: Getting Started: Your Archival Organization

A Manual for Small Archives, Chapter 2: Resources: People, Facilities and Money

Establishing a School Archives

"So you want to start an Archives?"

"Voicing Contested Histories: Creating opportunities to foster diversity, inclusion and reconciliation." webcast

CHIN: Guidelines for Developing a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a collection management system

MANDATE STATEMENTS AND POLICIES

UVic Archives Collections Policy

City of Richmond Corporate Records Management Program Bylaw

SFU Archives, Recorded Information Management, and Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy - Policies and Procedures

A Manual for Small Archives, Your Archives Policy / Sample Archives Policy 

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)

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