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This 19-page PDF collection policy has a very structured, highly-defined collection policy for use by the Highland City Library (UT) for its Special Collections and Manuscript Archive. The policy reflects numerous topics like security, deaccessioning, and has fully reproduced major SAA and library ethics and standards for archives. The policy includes blank forms for deed of gift, a deed of gift instruction sheet, researcher request form, materials request form, photocopy/scan request form, general copyright notice, and permission form to publish. The information and forms offer a decent template from which to structure your institution's own policies.
2. Perry Local History Room Collection and Usage Policy, Canton (CT) Public Library
This short webpage provides a very simple, easy-to-follow collection policy and patron usage rules for a local public library's history room/archives for Canton Public Library (CT). It offers a text-forward description of policies and procedures (without any drop-down menus or options) to make use easy for the local community (10,124 as of the 2020 census). The structure and content of the policy match all current professional archives standards for such policies, and this policy is easily used or reproduced at other institutions.
3. Red Bank (NJ) Public Library Local History Room Forms and Policies
The Red Bank (NJ) Public Library Local History Room has provided their blank forms online, including a photocopy policy, photograph reproduction policy, publication policy, and a Spanish-language researcher registration form. These are good general, simply-structured forms with good explanations that are highly adaptable for other institutions.
4. Elizabeth (NJ) Public Library Local History Room Research Request Policy
This 2-page research request policy for the Elizabeth (NJ) Public Library Local History Room, including information on remote research requests. It is basic, has basic standards and limitations, stated fees, and a blank form that can be filled out and returned for remote research requests to help the library keep track of research requests. It's a good basic policy to use as a structure that can be adapted if needed.
5. University of Massachusetts-Boston Processing Manual for Archival and Manuscript Collections
The University of Massachusetts-Boston in Boston, MA, is a public research university with a major archives graduate program through the MA degree in History with a concentration in Archives. This 42-page processing manual, based on DACS structure, is used by all staff, student workers, and interns involved in processing at UMass-Boston's Archives and Special Collections. The manual provides DACS-field justifications and definitions for finding aids, is full of blank sample forms and templates for such things as "Processing Plan" and "Finding Aid", and is one of the more non-technical processing manuals for a public university archives.
6. Society of Georgia Archivists Forms Resource
The Society of Georgia Archivists' Forms Resource has been compiled as a resource for archivists and librarians, or anyone else needing to make sense of the organization, administration, and work-flow of an archives or special collections library. The resources are from archives and libraries within the state of Georgia, and are intended as representations of the types of forms needed or used in operating an archives.
