Now that you have that wonderful collection of your town founder's letters and papers, what are you going to do with them? What steps would an archivist take to organize them and make them available to researchers? In this newly updated edition of Organizing Archival Records you will find what you need to know. David Carmicheal offers step-by-step guidance to understanding the purpose of organization and the essentials of how to do it. He covers the basic terms and theory of organization, and how to avoid some common pitfalls. Real-world examples, exercises, sample forms, and step-by-step directions allow you to apply what you have learned to organizing your own archival materials in a professional manner. An excellent resource for both computerized and manual organization and recordkeeping.

Organizing Archival Records: A Practical Method of Arrangement and Description for Small Archives (American Association for State and Local History)

History

Carmicheal, David W.

Americas

AltaMira Press

Now that you have that wonderful collection of your town founder's letters and papers, what are you going to do with them? What steps would an archivist take to organize them and make them available to researchers? In this newly updated edition of Organizing Archival Records you will find what you need to know. David Carmicheal offers step-by-step guidance to understanding the purpose of organization and the essentials of how to do it. He covers the basic terms and theory of organization, and how to avoid some common pitfalls. Real-world examples, exercises, sample forms, and step-by-step directions allow you to apply what you have learned to organizing your own archival materials in a professional manner. An excellent resource for both computerized and manual organization and recordkeeping.

Business & Money

Industries

Many of our nation’s historical records reside in small historical societies, libraries, cultural organizations, houses of worship, and museums. The hard work of non-professional archivists is to thank for preserving much of our documentary heritage. Organizing Archival Records equips non-professional archivists with the skills to tackle one of the most challenging tasks of archiving: arranging and describing archival materials. Carmicheal offers step-by-step guidance to understanding the purpose of organization and the essentials of how to do it. He covers the basic terms and theory of organization, and how to avoid some common pitfalls. Carmichael brings this third edition into the 21st century with extended discussions about computerizing the process, making descriptions available on the web, and organizing electronic records. With real-world examples, exercises, and step-by-step directions, anyone can organize archival materials in a professional manner. Organizing Archival Records is an excellent resource for both computerized and manual organization and recordkeeping.

Organizing Archival Records: A Practical Method Of Arrangement And Description For Small Archives (American Association For State And Local History)

Leadership development requires intentionality and strategy. Leadership skills are best learned by observing and following the examples of leaders--and they are best taught through mentoring. In Leading and Managing Archives and Manuscripts Programs, the editors share their personal experiences, gleaned from a combined five decades of archival leadership, regarding key functions of leaders and managers: communication, strategies, resources and budgets, leadership in transformative change and crisis, building relationships within and beyond the archives, and leadership development. In the second half of the book, five archival leaders further highlight essential aspects of leadership through their accounts of the challenges of directing programs in various institutional settings and what has proven effective. In addition, the former director of the Archival Leadership Institute describes how that program catapulted leadership development throughout the profession. Leading and Managing Archives and Manuscripts Programs goes beyond conventional wisdom to provide plentiful examples of successful leadership practices from the archives field. Students, aspiring and newly appointed managers, those working alone or with few staff, and veteran practitioners will benefit from these fresh perspectives on archival leadership.

Leading and Managing Archives and Manuscripts Programs (Archival Fundamentals Series III)

Politics & Social Sciences

Gottlieb, Peter

Social Sciences

Society of Amer Archivists

This book is in response to an increasing number of inquiries from small historical repositories regarding the arrangement and description of archives and historical manuscripts. This source helps to fill a void in existing archival literature.

Organizing Archival Records: A Practical Method of Arrangement

Pennsylvania Historical &

Guide to the Collections of the Westchester County Archives

Maull, Diana

Compilers

Westchester County

Organizing Archival Records (American Association for State and Local History)

Much of our nation’s documentary heritage resides in small historical societies, libraries, cultural organizations, houses of worship, and museums. The preservation of this heritage often depends on the dedicated efforts of people who, in their workaday world, practice some profession other than archivist. For twenty five years, Organizing Archival Records has equipped non-professional archivists to tackle the challenging task of arranging and describing archival materials. The latest edition preserves the practical, easy-to-follow, step-by-step approach of earlier editions while updating its content to reflect current archival practices:practical ways to arrange and describe digital records;simple tools you can use to manage and store your descriptions, whatever the level of your computer skills;how to share your descriptions with others;why provenance and original order are foundational to arrangement and description;how the principles codified in SAA’s Describing Archives: A Content Standard can guide your arrangement and description process;an expanded discussion of related topics, including appraisal, security, safe handling of records, storage conditions, and what to do with all the records that were in your archives before you read Organizing Archival Records.

Reference

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Much of our nation’s documentary heritage resides in small historical societies, libraries, cultural organizations, houses of worship, and museums. The preservation of this heritage often depends on the dedicated efforts of people who, in their workaday world, practice some profession other than archivist. For twenty five years, Organizing Archival Records has equipped non-professional archivists to tackle the challenging task of arranging and describing archival materials. The latest edition preserves the practical, easy-to-follow, step-by-step approach of earlier editions while updating its content to reflect current archival practices: 
<ul>
<li>practical ways to arrange and describe digital records;</li>
<li>simple tools you can use to manage and store your descriptions, whatever the level of your computer skills;</li>
<li>how to share your descriptions with others;</li>
<li>why provenance and original order are foundational to arrangement and description;</li>
<li>how the principles codified in SAA’s Describing Archives: A Content Standard can guide your arrangement and description process;</li>
<li>an expanded discussion of related topics, including appraisal, security, safe handling of records, storage conditions, and what to do with all the records that were in your archives before you read Organizing Archival Records.</li>
</ul>

Leading And Managing Archives And Manuscripts Programs

Society Of American Archivists

Wosh, Peter J.

Society of American Archivists

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