This authoritative guide to the principles and practice of archives management in private and public sector organizations has been substantially revised.

Michael Cook is Senior Research Fellow of LUCAS (Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies) and was, for many years, University Archivist and international consultant in Archives Studies. He is a well-known author of books and articles on archival practice and, with Margaret Procter, wrote the Manual of Archival Description, also published by Gower. He is a council member of the Society of Archivists, and a member of both the International Council on Archives and the Records Management Society.

Contents: Archival management in an information context; Archives services: their general nature, structure and function; Records management; Acquisition and archival appraisal; Archival arrangement; Archival description: general principles; The structure and form of data in archival descriptions; The organization of information in archival systems; Computing for archival management; Access and use: facilities and restrictions; Bibliography; Index.