Dictionary of archives terminology
Accessibility
- SAA Guidelines for Accessible Archives for People with Disabilities
- Deque University: Digital accessibility and accessibility reference library
- WebAIM
- ADA National Network: Guidelines for writing about people with disabilities
- Disability Language Style Guide: National Center on Disability and Journalism
- Archives Accessibility Audit: Lydia Tang
Activism and Diversity/Inclusion/Equity
- MARAC Diversity and Inclusion Resources
- WITNESS x El Grito de Sunset Park
- Lucy Parsons Lab: digital rights, civic transparency, data liberation
- Documenting the Now tools
- Defend Our Movements: Digital self-defense knowledge base
- Project STAND: Archiving student activism toolkit, documenting student activism without harm
- Protocols for Native American Archival Materials
ArchivesSpace
- Getting started with ArchivesSpace
- ArchivesSpace Glossary
- ArchivesSpace manuals (SAA)
- ArchivesSpace YouTube channel
- ArchivesSpace Sandbox
- login and password: admin
Digital collections
- Digital Preservation 101, Digital POWRR Institute
- Dublin Core Metadata Terms
- FADGI Guidelines: File Format Comparison Projects
- FADGI Guidelines: Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials
- Library of Congress Recommended Formats Statement
- South Carolina Digital Library Metadata Guide
Ethics
- SAA Code of Ethics for Archivists
- RBMS Code of Ethics for Special Collections Librarians
- Ethics and Best Practices in Museums
Fair use and copyright
- Copyright 101 and LibGuide: Cornell University
- Copyright and Fair Use: Stanford Libraries
- Rights Statements
- US Copyright Office
- Copyright Alliance
- CUNY LibGuide
- Copyright for Music Librarians
- Library Copyright Alliance
Labor and management
- Best Practices for Archival Term Positions
- Collective Responsibility Labor Advocacy Toolkit
- Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums
- Total Cost of Stewardship: Responsible Collection Building in Archives and Special Collections
- Archival and Special Collections Facilities: Guidelines for Archivists, Librarians, Architects, and Engineers
- Worker.gov
Materials and supplies
Metadata and description standards
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Dublin Core
- Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS)
- Getty Metadata Standards Crosswalk
- Library of Congress Authorities
- Categories for the Description of Works of Art
- Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Union List of Artist Names
- VRA Core
- PBCore
- Protocols for Native American Archival Materials
- Disability Language Style Guide: compiled by the National Center on Disability and Journalism
- Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia Metadata Recommendations
- Best Practices for Queer Metadata: by the Queer Metadata Collective
- Metadata Best Practices for Trans and Gender Diverse Resources: by the Trans Metadata Collective
- A Guide to Conscious Editing: excellent guide to reparative description efforts of all kinds
- Digital Public Library of America Documentation and Tools, and Metadata Application Profile
Oral history
- Queens Memory Project
- OHA Principles and Best Practices: Oral History Association
- Boston Research Center Toolkit for Interviewers
- Oral History Transcription Style Guide (2022): Columbia University
- Telling Lives Curriculum Guide
- Oral History Philosophy, Procedures, and Evaluation
- Documenting and Interpreting Conflict Through Oral History
Preservation
- Documentary Heritage and Preservation Services for New York
- NEDCC’s Preservation Leaflets series
- PSAP (Preservation Self-Assessment Program): in-depth descriptions and photos of paper, book, photographic, and audiovisual formats/processes
- NPS Conserve-o-grams
- Emergency Salvage Resources: Preparedness, response, recovery
- Alliance for Response New York City
Processing guides
- QC SCA Processing Guide
- Linear footage calculator
- SAA Accessioning Best Practices
- Archival Description of Notated Music (ADNM)
- Rockefeller Archive Center Guide to Processing Collections
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- SAA Guidelines for Reappraisal and Deaccessioning
- Guidelines for Efficient Archival Processing in the University of California Libraries (Version 4)
- Smithsonian Archives of American Art Guidelines for Processing Collections with Audiovisual Material
- Joint Processing Guidelines at Harvard Library
- Lighting the Way Handbook: Case Studies, Guidelines, and Emergent Futures for Archival Discovery and Delivery
- UC Guidelines for Born-Digital Archival Description
- New York Public Library processing guides
Professional publications
- Dictionary of Archives Terminology
- The American Archivist: Journal of the Society of American Archivists
- Archives in Context podcast: produced by SAA
- Archival Outlook
- Archivaria: Journal of the Association of Canadian Archivists
- Acid Free Magazine: Los Angeles Archives Collective
- Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies
- Archival Science: International Journal on Recorded Information
- Archives and Records: The Journal of the Archives and Records Association
- Archives of American Art Journal
- Journal of Western Archives
- Information and Culture
- The Public Historian
- On the Record podcast
Research with archives
- Archival Research LibGuide: CUNY Graduate Center
- Archival Research LibGuide: Barnard College
- Using Archives: A Guide to Effective Research, SAA
- The Princeton Guide to historical research, by Zachary M. Schrag
Teaching with archives
- Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy SAA-ACRL/RBMS
- Teaching with Primary Sources: Looking at the Support Needs of Instructors, Ithaka S+K report
- Teaching and Learning with Digital Primary Sources, JSTOR report
- TeachArchives.org
- Hidden Voices: Untold Stories of New York City History
- NARA Educator Resources
- RE:SOURCE Teach with Archives: Rockefeller Archive Center
