**Apologies for cross posting**
Are you or your organisation looking for a practical and accessible guide
to managing archives?
A new text book, 'Managing archives: foundations, principles and practice'
by Caroline Williams, Director of Liverpool University Centre for Archive
Studies (LUCAS) has just been published by Chandos Publishing.
It has chapters on:
*Principles and purposes of records and archives
*Selection, appraisal and acquisition
*Archival arrangement and description
*Access, reference and advocacy
*Preservation
*Managing an archive service
It is aimed at 'those starting out as archive professionals... at students
on archives, records, museums, library and information programmes... and
anyone who has taken responsibility for archives but without any prior
experience'.
You can order it from www.chandospublishing.com
Paperback - Price £ 39.00 ISBN 1 84334 112 3
Hardback - Price £ 57.00 ISBN 1 84334 113 1
Lizzie Woulfe
Programme Development Officer
Centre for Archive Studies
School of History
9 Abercromby Square
Liverpool
L69 7WZ
Tel +44(0)151 794 2414
email: [log in to unmask]
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