Title & Author:

How to keep union records / edited by Michael Nash.

Publication:

Chicago : Society of American Archivists, ©2010.

Description:

ix, 228 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
"Revised and expanded edition of How to keep union records [by Debra Bernhardt, published in 1992]"--Preface.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-214) and index.
Labor history and archival management -- Unions and labor archives -- Records management -- Appraisal -- Consolidations and mergers : implications for union archives -- Arrangement, description, preservation -- Reference and access -- Oral history -- Photographs, recorded sound, moving images, and objects -- Electronic records.

Summary:

How to keep union records illustrates how basic archival theory and best practice methodologies can be applied to the challenges presented by labor collections. This volume highlights recent transformations in the labor archives world, such as changes in recordkeeping practices, the impact of union mergers and the consolidation movement on archival collections, the growing importance of media collections, and electronic records as well as union websites. Also included in the volume are an extensive bibliography and a directory of labor archives in the United States.

ISBN:

1931666350 (alk. paper)
9781931666350 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Labor unions United States Records and correspondence Management.
Labor unions United States Archives.
Syndicats États-Unis Documents et correspondance Gestion.
Syndicats États-Unis Archives.
Labor unions
United States

Form/genre:

Archives.

Added entries:

Nash, Michael, 1946-
Bernhardt, Debra E. How to keep union records.
Society of American Archivists.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 268909
Call No.: HD6508 .H69 2010
Status: Available