Planning

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 :

Finally, if you want to resource your sound archives, you can find some tools right here:

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.