Handling Archives and Artifacts Procedures should take into account RBCM province-wide guidelines as well as local standards. Inappropriate handling of artifacts and archives can be more harmful than just letting the items sit in a basement. The other manuals in this series tell you how RBCM staff envisage how school heritage inventories, and oral history projects could be conducted. If you have no other resources in your community, these manuals will keep you on the right track. If you have a local museum or heritage society, be sure to contact it so that the procedures you develop will suit their needs.
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Set a short time limit. Let s look at how some of the points we ve talked about in this manual were applied in Kamloops. The committee decided to begin with an inventory. A complete inventory was too ambitious for a first project, so they identified schools in the district that would most likely house things of value. The project was to take no longer than five months.