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Here is a comprehensive, authoritative introduction to the elements
of day-to-day operations of local government archives, with special
emphasis on best practices and practical solutions and strategies
for establishing and improving such things as storage,
environmental control, staffing, and intellectual control. It
includes a chapter on general consideration for preservation of
electronic archival records. Local government records are the
records that most directly touch the lives of U. S. residents:
deeds and property records, marriage licenses, school transcripts,
law suits, and more, yet these records are often the most neglected
records in the country. This guide is designed to appeal both to
trained archivists as well as to those without formal training but
find they are dealing with the administration of an archives
program in a municipality, county, parish, township or borough, or
a quasi-governmental entity such as a water district or a regional
transportation authority. Managing Local Government Archives
describes and prescribes the essential elements and best practices
of a local government archives program. It is intended to be both a
text for classroom instruction and a self-help tool for both
professional and paraprofessional archivists. It is also intended
to be helpful to local governments considering the planning and
implementation of a formal archives program. Coverage encompasses
the various domains of archival enterprise as practiced in a local
government setting: *acquisition, *appraisal, *arrangement and
description, *preservation, *access, *relationship to the records
management profession, and *other topics.
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