Archival Practice

No matter how much you read, plan, or visualise a practical task, nothing beats the actual doing. A book on sailing cannot teach you how to sail; it can explain the parts of a sailboat and how they function, it can offer practical advice on how to launch, steer, and handle the vessel, and it …

Archiving 101 | Processing

With my return to the PLC looming it is time to consider what on earth will happen when I (again) get my hands on the UCT Collection. The records need to be ‘processed’ – they need to be given an ‘accession number’ (a unique alphanumeric ID), they need to be ‘arranged’ (grouped, organised, categorised), and …