Latest batch of archive services receive accreditation

10 Jun 2014 03:46 PM

The Archive Service Accreditation Committee has recently made four accredited archive service status awards. The archive services are the first to achieve accreditation, after the archive services who helped to pilot the standard. They are:

• Lincolnshire Archives
• Lancashire Archives
• London Metropolitan Archives
• Special Collections, University of Bradford

The quality standard for archives services

Archive Service Accreditation is the quality standard for archives services across the UK. The award of accredited status demonstrates that the archive service has achieved clearly defined national standards relating to:

• management and resourcing
• the care of its unique collections
• what the service offers to its entire range of users

Find out more about Archive Service Accreditation.