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.