Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives, 3rd edition

Since its original publication, no text has served as a better overview of the field of archives than Hunter?

€™s manual.

Newly revised and updated to thoroughly address our increasingly digital world, it remains the most comprehensive guide to the discipline.

Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives covers such key topics as:

• a history of archives, including the roles of historical societies and local history collections in libraries

• new sections on community archives, diversity, and inclusion

• conducting a survey and starting an archival program

• selection, appraisal, acquisition, accessioning and deaccessioning

• important points of copyright, privacy and ethics

• arrangement of archival collections, with a discussion of new theories

• description, including DACS, EAD and tools such as ArchivesSpace

• access, reference, and outreach, with a look at how recent innovations in finding aids can help researchers

• preservation, including guidance on how to handle rare books, maps, architectural records and artefacts

• digital records

• disaster planning, security, and theft prevention

• metrics, assessment, establishing employee procedures and policies, working with interns and volunteers and other managerial duties

• public relations and marketing, from social media and the Web to advocacy and

• professional guidelines and codes such as the newly developed SAA Statement of Core Values of Archivists.

Providing in-depth coverage of both theory and practice, this manual is essential for archivists at all levels of experience and of all backgrounds.