An Archives Management programme can help an organisation in the following areas:

•To determine what has continuing value to the organisation and should be managed and preserved within an archives programme.
•To establish standards and procedures for describing archival materials.
•To develop appropriate strategies for increasing awareness and use of archival holdings.
•To identify specifications for services including microfilming and imaging.
•To establish initial conservation priorities and plan for on-going preservation programme.
•To carry out listing/cataloguing of archival holdings.
•To exploit archival material through publication or exhibition.

Archives are the records maintained permanently by a given institution in any medium because of their legal, fiscal, informational, evidential, and historical value. 'Archives' is also a term used to describe the physical site where records of permanent value are arranged, described, preserved, and made available, or the department within an organisation responsible for administering the Archives.

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