SAA Council Adopts "Guidelines for Reappraisal and Deaccessioning"

The SAA Council on May 23 adopted Guidelines for Reappraisal and Deaccessioning as an SAA standard. The new Guidelines outlines general steps, problems, and solutions geared to ensuring responsible and ethical reappraisal and deaccessioning decisions in archival repositories. The Guidelines, which originated with the SAA Acquisitions and Appraisal Section,  will be available on the SAA Standards Portal soon.