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Definition

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Materials received as a unit (i.e., accession) and added to the Archives Permanent Collection. Acquisitions refers to the process of acquiring records from any source. This process results in the periodic need to reappraise (see: reappraisal)the Archives Permanent Collection for materials that need to be deaccessioned (see: deaccession).

Source: https://www2.archivists.org/glossary/terms/a/acquisition

Standards

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Acquisition of digital archives is is a core archival function guided by two ISO standards:

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Deaccessioning

Reappraisal

Source

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Documentation

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University Archives Procedure Manual - Acquisitions

Further reading

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Tufts University and Yale University. Ingest Guide for University Electronic Records. 2006. https://dca.lib.tufts.edu/features/nhprc/reports/ingest/index.html.

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