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Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives: A How-To-Do-It Manual (How-to-Do-It Manuals for Libraries)

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Developing And Maintaining Practical Archives is a thorough and professional quality "how-to" instruction manual to keeping corporate, academic, or community library archival records so that information retrieval is comprehensive, user friendly, "on demand", and best suited to the needs of a particular situation. From a walkthrough of how to properly conduct a survey; to starting an archival program; to security and disaster planning; to digital records, and so much more, the individual chapters deftly cover topics with an instructional text embedded with sound practical applications. Developing And Maintaining Practical Archives is a "must-read" for anyone charged with building or maintaining an archive.

Despite being a bit outdated, it is a good book for anyone who is considering archives as a specialty. You will need to read additional sources covering internet, digital preservation and EAD.

The book is easy to read, gets to the point quickly and has good follow-up notes.

Overall, I recommed it as a good starting point.

This book provides practical and thorough directions for the smooth and efficient management of an archive. It is a must-have for new archivists and a good addition for even the most seasoned archivist's library.

Great transaction with seller, first of all. Secondly, this text is wonderful. Intended for use at the graduate level, this book remembers that readers can't all see text smaller than size 10 pt. easily. The best thing about this book, however, lies in the epic margins. I'm buying this book as an aspiring archivist, and love that I can take as many notes as I need/want to right on the page. Thank you for not insulting our intelligence by filling the would-be huge margins with "did you know"'s and vocab words (as 90% of my undergraduate texts insisted upon).