Announcing the Revised Draft Guidelines for Standardized Holdings Counts and Measures for Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries (2018)

The SAA-ACRL/RBMS Joint Task Force on the Development of Standardized Holdings Counts and Measures for Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries is pleased to announce the release of its revised draft Guidelines for Standardized Holdings Counts and Measures for Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries.The Guidelines are the product of the Task Force’s efforts to analyze, incorporate, and address community feedback received in response to its draft release between January 11 and March 3, 2017, and as summarized in the Task Force’s July 20, 2017 Annual Report to the Standards Committee.

• Read the Guidelines online
• Download the Guidelines as a PDF
• Download the tables/worksheets in the Guidelines here

Comments on the Guidelines are welcome before Tuesday, July 31, 2018. Please direct comments to the Task Force co-chairs:

Martha O’Hara Conway, moconway@umich.edu (for RBMS)
Emily R. Novak Gustainis, emily_gustainis@hms.harvard.edu (for SAA).

You do not need to be a member of RBMS or SAA to comment on the Guidelines.