Advice Leaflets

These are produced by society members and professionals within the archive and heritage profession. Suggestions for new topics are always gratefully received.

Advice Leaflets are free to download below.

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Advice 1: Establishing an Archive: Initial Stage: Collecting

Advice 2: Second stage: Preliminary Sorting and Listing

Advice 3: Retention of financial records

Advice 4: Establishing an Archive: Third Stage: Basic Classification and cataloguing

Advice 5: Glossary of basic archival terms

Advice 6: Conservation and Preservation

Advice 7: Useful contacts and sources of information

Advice 8: Providing access to your archives

Advice 9: Mounting an Exhibition Using Archives

Advice 10: Access to Adoption and Care Records — *New version now available*

Advice 11: Employing an archive professional

Advice 12: Disaster planning

Advice 13: Introduction to records management