Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives: A How-To-Do-It Manual (How-to-Do-It Manuals for Libraries, No. 122)

Despite being a bit outdated, it is a good book for anyone who is considering archives as a specialty. You will need to read additional sources covering internet, digital preservation and EAD.

The book is easy to read, gets to the point quickly and has good follow-up notes.

Overall, I recommed it as a good starting point.

This book provides practical and thorough directions for the smooth and efficient management of an archive. It is a must-have for new archivists and a good addition for even the most seasoned archivist's library.

Developing And Maintaining Practical Archives is a thorough and professional quality "how-to" instruction manual to keeping corporate, academic, or community library archival records so that information retrieval is comprehensive, user friendly, "on demand", and best suited to the needs of a particular situation. From a walkthrough of how to properly conduct a survey; to starting an archival program; to security and disaster planning; to digital records, and so much more, the individual chapters deftly cover topics with an instructional text embedded with sound practical applications. Developing And Maintaining Practical Archives is a "must-read" for anyone charged with building or maintaining an archive.