The NZTA Manual

First published in 2005, the manual Caring for your Theatre Archives has now been reprinted by The New Zealand Theatre Archive Trust. This is a manual for people dealing with theatre archives, and is designed to be an easy-to-follow guide.

The New Zealand Theatre Archive promotes the preservation of theatre archives, and was established in 1997. It aims to identify all New Zealand’s theatre archives, and encourages theatres and individuals to place them in repositories. The manual is a way of equipping theatre groups to look after their archives.

The various chapters of the manual cover all the basic steps of archives practice.
Contents include:

• Guide to The Manual
• What are Theatre Records and Archives?
• Theatre Archives Management
• A Policy for Theatre Archives
• Collecting Theatre Archives
• To Keep or not to Keep
• Depositing your Archives
• Documenting Theatre Archives
• Taking Control
• Preservation and Conservation
• Using Theatre Archives
• Theatre Archives and Computers

Appendices

As well as giving practical instruction on how to deal with archives, the 60 page manual includes Appendices that give useful examples, and information on how to obtain supplies.

While the manual is published to give assistance to theatre archivists and others responsible for or holding theatre archives, it will be useful to all people who care for archives of small organisations, and who do not have ready access to training or to outside expertise.

The manual is available on order, at a cost of $15 (GST inclusive), from:

New Zealand Theatre Archive
PO Box 6065
Wellington
E-mail: nzta@vuw.ac.nz

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Caring for your Theatre Archives

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