Here are some links to help you plan the different steps in sound preservation, beginning with the inventory and the audit of your collections, as advised by AVPreserve:
Following with some links to help you select and prioritise your collections :
- International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives: Selection in Sound Archives (1984)
- AVPreserve: MediaRivers/MediaScore
Finally, if you want to resource your sound archives, you can find some tools right here:
- AVPreserve: Cost of Inaction Calculator
- Resourcing Scotland’s Heritage: Training material downloads
- TownsWeb Archiving: Sources of funding for digitisation projects
Volunteer Scotland give out many tools to help you manage your volunteers:
The following sides are from a webinar on Managing and Working with Sound Collections: held in August 2021. This presentation included lessons learned from Unlocking Our Sound Heritage and a workshop on priorities for collection holders to achieve their aims.