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

Activist and Emergency Archiving

• Librarians and Archivists With Palestine
• Archives and Digital Media Lab
• 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
• Documenting in Times of Crisis Toolkit: SAA

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 Term and the Public Domain in the United States worksheet
  • Fair Use Checklist
• 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
  • Form a Union
  • Know Your Rights Toolkit

Materials and supplies

• Gaylord Archival
• University Products
• Hollinger Metal Edge

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
  • A4BLiP resources PDF
• 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
• Inclusive Metadata Toolkit (includes assessment and remediation tools)

Oral history

• Queens Memory Project
  • Interviewer Guide
  • Interview Participant Guide
• 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
• Preservation Glossary, Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts

Processing guides

• QC SCA Processing Guide
  • QC SCA Processing Plan Template
• 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