Best Practice Guidelines

Best Practice Guidelines are written by Society members to provide advice to those responsible for managing or delivering archive services.  They represent model standards based on research undertaken by practitioners in UK archives.

Please note that no guideline has been updated since its publication.  Before you seek to implement any guideline it is recommended that you consult other professional literature for updated advice.  In the UK this would include the Journal of the Society of Archivists or similar journals or reports produced by UK organisations involved in archives, conservation or records management.

I Measuring Performance by Patricia Methven et al (1993) iii + 72pp.
ISBN 0 902886 45 2 £15

II Security by F.I. Dunn (1994) iv + 18pp. ISBN
0 902886 47 9 Available by download only

III Health and Safety by R.J. Childs (1996) Withdrawn May 2008 

IV Preservation and Conservation by Chris Pickford, Jonathan Rhys-Lewis and Jerry Weber (1997) 85pp.
ISBN 0 902886 54 1 (£7)

V Archive Education Services by David Bond and Angeli Vaid (1998) vi + 48pp.
ISBN 0 902886 55 X £15 (£7)

VI Film and Sound Archives in non-specialist repositories by D M Lee (2001) 72pp.
ISBN 0 902886 60 6 £15 (£7)

VII Archival Web Sites by Caroline Shenton (2002) 50pp.
ISBN 0 902886 61 4 £15 (£7)

VIII After the Hundred Year Rule by Colin Gale and Catherine Redfern (2004) 19pp. ISBN 0 902886 63 0 

Last modified 25/05/2008