Phillips, Faye. Creating a Local History Archive at Your Public Library. ALA Editions, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1566-0
Description
Developing and maintaining a local history archives are a great way for libraries to connect with their community. This concise guidebook presents best practices for the acquisition, access, and care of local history materials in public libraries.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Defining, Creating, and Developing a Local History Archive
The History of Local History
Scope and Formats of Materials
Mission Statements
Managing
- Policies and Procedures
- Planning
- Staffing
- Scenarios
Chapter 2 Collection Development Policies for a Local History Archive
- Priorities and Limitations of the Local History Archive
- Users/Patrons
- Programs
- Gift Policy
- Deaccessioning Policy
- Resource Sharing/Cooperative Policy
- Policy Implementation and Review
Chapter 3 Acquiring and Making Local History Collections Accessible
Processing Step 1: Appraisal
- Appraisal Theory
- Organizational and Institutional Records
- Personal Papers
- To Accept or Not to Accept
- Recap: Conducting an Appraisal, How to Do It
- Deed of Gift
- Organizational Agreement
- Records Transmittal Form
- Monetary Appraisals for Donors
- Donor Requested Restrictions
- Abandoned or Orphaned Collections
- Recap: Legal Transfer, How to Do It
- Deaccessioning
- Processing Plan
- What’s in a Name?
- Recap: Accessioning, How to Do It
- Levels of Arrangement and Description
- Recap: Arrangement, How to Do It
- Finding Aids
- Digitization
- Unknown Provenance
- Recap: Description, How to Do It
- Access Policy
- Utilizing the Online Public Access Catalog
- Web Finding Aids
- Copyright
- Outreach
- Reference Services
- Recap: Access, How to Do It
Chapter 4 Care of a Local History Archive
Preservation
- Digitization as Access and Preservation
Disaster Awareness, Prevention, and Recovery
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
