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Refining Your Archival Skills
Holiday Gift Guide: Connect Through Memories
A gift that celebrates memories is so much more than a present. An occasion for gift giving--the holidays, a birthday, an anniversary--is all about the experience. And everything's better when you enjoy it together.
Here's a list of distinctive gifts for everyone on your nice list. The ties that bind these gifts together is that they cherish the past or create the future.
Records Disposition for Archives
Determining the flow of an organization’s records ensures that archivists schedule materials for disposition.
In addition, archivists can liaise with departments within their organizations to help retain significant documentation and inclusion of those records within the archives. If there is not already one, creating a records retention schedule should be one of the archivists’ first tasks after an archival assessment.
Safe Storage for Archival Preservation
Many organizations have little room to store archival collections, so rare and fragile materials often end up in less-than-ideal locations.
In addition, most materials deteriorate over time, especially audiovisual materials, so a vigilant eye is needed to protect the items chosen for archival collections.
Archives Assessment Questions
Assessing the Archives Program
Only a fraction of an organization’s records finds their way into the archives. Archives hold non-current records with permanent historical value.
They are no longer needed during day-to-day institutional activities, but they document organizational history. Just as each organization is unique, its archives are equally distinctive. Professional archival principles and standards have been developed over decades of archival practice. However, each organization will adhere to them in its own way.
Building Support for Archival Programs
9 Ways to Verify Primary Source Reliability
To produce sound historical research, we need reliable primary sources. Records created at the same time as an event, or as close as possible to it, usually have a greater chance of being accurate than records created years later, especially by someone without firsthand knowledge of the event. When you are conducting research, you want to corroborate the contents of the document you are working with with information from other sources that have been proven to be legitimate
Five Questions to Ask When Using Primary Sources
Preserving Organizational History
Every organization has a history; ideally, institutions should organize and preserve their records for the future. Written records are often the only source of information about an institution’s early intentions and activities, and these documents provide institutional knowledge about the organization’s establishment, by whom, and what programs and activities it created.