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                 REFERENCE WORKS: Appraisal of Records

[determining Value: "Past is Prologue" and Reference to Previous UNICEF responses on related Subjects]

Date: 02 September 1993

Ref:  IRM/RAM/93-146

Sub:  AD-570/REF?

No.

Title of Reference

Source

Document number

pages

RAM

Folder

Comment

 

1

Archival appraisal of records of international organizations: A RAMP study with guidelines

Gen Info Prog

& UNISIST: UNESCO

PGI-85/WS/4

Paris 1985

99 p.

AD-570/

RAMP-GUIDE

Statment of standard archival methodology and its application in international organizations.

 

2

ICA/SIO Recommendations on Appraisal 1979, 1983, 1986 [International Council on Archives/Section of Archivists of International Organizations]

ICA/SIO Section Handbook

1st edition, 1991

I.10. 1979,

1983,

1986

 

 

 

3

The Appraisal of Modern Public Records by T.R.Schellenberg in "The Modern Archives Reader"

USA National Archives & Records Service,

ISBN 0-11333-12-6, Chapt 3

14 p.

 

Primary, Secondary, Evidential,Informa-tional Values; Test Reasons, form & importance

 

4

Appraising Machine Readable Records -Charles M. Dollar in "The Modern Archives Reader"

USA National Archives & Records Service,

ISBN 0-11333-12-6, Chapt 3

9 p.

 

 

 

5

Appraisal Standards by T.R. Schellenberg in "Modern Archives: Principles and Techniques- Chapter XII"

University of Chicago Press

page 133 to 160

28 p.

pp 133

-160

 

 

 

6

Archives & Manuscripts: Appraisal & Accessioning by Maynard J. Brichford [1977]

Society of American Archivists [SAA]

Basic Manual Series

24 p.

Ad-571

 

 

7

Pease Award:  Transcendent Concepts:  Power, Appraisal, and the Archivist as "Social Outcast" - Roy C. Schaeffer

American Archivist

Vol 55/Fall 1992

12 p.

pp.608-619

AD-570

/Stand

 

 

8

Appraisal Standards - "Separating Records" [definition of terms and appraisal Grid of retention times]

UNICEF Information Circular

CF/IC/1986-112

8 pages

AD-570

/Stand

 

 

9

Records Inventory, Appraisal, Review & Retention

UNICEF Policy & Procedure Manual - Admin

Chapter 10.4

CF/MN/P.J/10.4

 

28

pages

IN-820/CF/MN/P.J

 

 

10

Sharing Common premises and Services in the UN System - A statement by Executive Heads [UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, WFP]

Joint Consultative Group on Policy (JCGP)

CF/EXD/1988-2921

3p.

+

2p.

Cover

AD-252

Policy, procedures for Review, Common Premises & Services

 

11

Problems of Storage and its costs in organizations of the United Nations Systems (JIU/REP/86/9) & (JIU/REP/87/6)

UN Joint Inspection Unit

A/41/806

A/42/724 & Corr.1

 

AD-250

/ER-400

/JIU

Warehousing, Storage Costs, Possible Solutions

 

12

PREVIOUS UNICEF Responses on related subjects: Storage, Archives etc See document RAM/93-055