Archives for the Lay Person

Lois Hamill is university archivist and an assistant professor at Northern Kentucky University. She has previously worked with local historical society, church, and government records.

In this concise but extremely thorough book, Lois Hamill, University Archivist at Northern Kentucky University, bridges the gap for individuals and smaller institutions that need to organize what may often be long neglected collections. In this era of resource constraint, Lois takes a methodical approach to the description of these items, relying heavily on the affordable Past Perfect Software which can generate museum quality records for the beginner, with the informed narrative from Ms. Hamill to lead the way. . . . If there was one ready reference work I would recommend to someone commencing an archival collection it would be the Archives for the Lay Person. Ms. Hamill has given us a roadmap, folded neatly. We need only drive.

• PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1 Basic Definitions and ConceptsChapter 2 Acquiring New MaterialsChapter 3 Organizing the CollectionChapter 4 Describing the CollectionChapter 5 Photographs: Handling, Identifying, Arranging and DescribingChapter 6 Photographs: Management and UseChapter 7 Reference/ResearchersChapter 8 SecurityChapter 9 ExhibitsChapter 10 Your Storage EnvironmentChapter 11 Other Types of MaterialsChapter 12 Outside SpecialistsChapter 13 Additional ManpowerChapter 14 Disaster PreparednessAppendicesBibliographyIndex