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The Special Collections Handbook

by Alison Cullingford

  • 00. Introduction (some essentials)
  • 01. Care of Collections
  • 02. Emergency Planning
  • 03. Understanding Objects
  • 04. Acquiring and Developing Collections
  • 05. Cataloguing, Description and Metadata
  • 06. Digitisation and digital libraries
  • 07. Legal and Ethical Issues
  • 08. Serving Our Users
  • 09. Marketing Collections
  • 10. Widening Access
  • 11. Resources: space and people
  • 12. Influencing and fundraising
  • 13. Futures …
  • 14. Appendix A: Reference Shelf
  • 15. Appendix B: Skills for your career
  • About the Author
  • About this site
  • Reviews

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Boxes among the bones: embedding an archivist in Arch Sci

August 10, 2017 ~ alison-cullingford ~ Leave a comment

The embedded archivist I am delighted to report that we at the University of Bradford now have our own embedded archivist.  Not familiar with this term?  An embedded archivist works within the structure that is creating the records and is therefore ideally placed to encourage and foster an archiving culture. As archive services move into … Continue reading Boxes among the bones: embedding an archivist in Arch Sci

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Beware the Trilemma!

November 3, 2016November 2, 2016 ~ alison-cullingford ~ Leave a comment

Meet the Trilemma I was thinking about the oft-cited software designer's "trilemma": fast, cheap, good.  The trilemma for the designer's customer is that it is only possible for a project to be: fast and cheap - can't be good good and cheap - can't be fast good and fast - can't be cheap The qualities contradict each other: … Continue reading Beware the Trilemma!

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