We will help community groups develop archives of material that is important historically to their local area. This could include heritage material that is created in the normal course of the life of an individual, group or organisation. By heritage material we mean a range of formats – paper, photographs, video, film, sound or records that may only exist in digital form such as Web pages. Projects may be led by community organisations or be partnerships with local archive services.
Essential for...
Community groups who want to develop an archive project or archive organisations planning to work with community groups
Useful for....
Anyone developing a project where material such as oral history records, DVDs, written records may be produced and need to be kept as a record of the project
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Who is this guidance for?
3 Our aims
4 What are projects involving archives, people and communities?
5 Thinking about your project
5.1 For archive organisations
5.2 For community groups
6 Meeting our priorities and what we will fund
7 Sources of advice and Information
7.1 Publications and websites
7.2 Organisations
Appendix A Notes on cataloguing, digitisation and retroconversion
Appendix B Examples costs for projects involving archives