Archives Management

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The management and preservation of historical records and documents, including the selection, arrangement, description, and access to these materials.

Introduction to Archives Management: The basics of archives management, including the role of archives in preserving and providing access to historical materials.
Records Management: The study of the creation, maintenance, and disposal of records through their life cycle, including the principles of appraisal, retention, and disposal.
Archival Theory: The principles and concepts that guide archives management, including ideas about authenticity, provenance, and original order.
Information Retrieval: The process of finding and accessing information within archives, including various search and retrieval techniques.
Conservation and Preservation: The care and management of archival materials, including techniques for handling, storing, and restoring damaged items.
Digital Archives: The management of digital records, including the challenges of preserving and providing access to born-digital content.
Description and Cataloging: The creation of finding aids and catalog records to help researchers locate materials within collections.
Access and Outreach: Strategies for promoting and providing access to archival collections, including outreach to educators, researchers, and the broader public.
Collection Development: The process of building and developing archival collections, including acquisition policies and donor relations.
Ethics and Legal Issues: The ethical and legal considerations involved in archival management, including issues of privacy, copyright, and intellectual property.
Preventive Conservation: It involves implementing ways to prevent damage to the archival materials. This includes environmental control, storage, handling, and security.
Collection Management: It involves arranging and describing archival materials, creating finding aids, and developing policies and procedures for their use.
Digital Preservation: The digital preservation of archives includes maintaining the viability and accessibility of electronic records.
Records Management: It involves controlling the creation, maintenance, and disposal of records for administrative and legal purposes.
Emergency Planning and Response: It involves developing plans and strategies for responding to emergencies that may affect the archive collections such as fires, natural disasters, or theft.
Conservation Treatment: It involves the physical treatment of materials to restore them to their original condition or prevent further deterioration.
Outreach and Access: It involves promoting the archives to the public, providing access to the collections, and developing educational programs.
Oral History Preservation: The oral history preservation of archives includes the practice of recording and preserving the memories of individuals and communities.
Preservation Education and Training: It involves educating and training individuals and institutions [on the practices of conservation methods] for the long-term preservation of archival materials.
- "Archival science, or archival studies, is the study and theory of building and curating archives, which are collections of documents, recordings and data storage devices."
- "To build and curate an archive, one must acquire and evaluate recorded materials, and be able to access them later." - "Archival science seeks to improve methods for appraising, storing, preserving, and cataloging recorded materials."
- "In order to be of value to society, archives must be trustworthy." - "An archivist has a responsibility to authenticate archival materials, such as historical documents, and to ensure their reliability, integrity, and usability."
- "Archival records must be what they claim to be; accurately represent the activity they were created for; present a coherent picture through an array of content; and be in usable condition in an accessible location."
- "An archive curator is called an archivist." - "An archivist has a responsibility to authenticate archival materials, such as historical documents, and to ensure their reliability, integrity, and usability."
- "To build and curate an archive, one must acquire and evaluate recorded materials, and be able to access them later."
- "Archival science seeks to improve methods for appraising, storing, preserving, and cataloging recorded materials."
- "Archival records must be in usable condition in an accessible location."
- "An archivist has a responsibility to authenticate archival materials, such as historical documents, and to ensure their reliability, integrity, and usability."
- "Archival records must accurately represent the activity they were created for."
- "Archival records must be what they claim to be; present a coherent picture through an array of content; and be in usable condition in an accessible location."
- "The curation of an archive is called archive administration."
- "Archives are collections of documents, recordings, and data storage devices."
- "Archival science seeks to improve methods for appraising, storing, preserving, and cataloging recorded materials."
- "Archival records must be in usable condition in an accessible location."
- "In order to be of value to society, archives must be trustworthy."
- "An archivist has a responsibility to authenticate archival materials and ensure their reliability, integrity, and usability."
- "The curation of an archive is called archive administration."
- "Archival science seeks to improve methods for cataloging recorded materials."
- "An archivist has a responsibility to acquire and evaluate recorded materials."