Where Other services have been specified, we have only included those related to the management of archives and not to the broader service policies of the host institution. These have rarely been altered except where the acquisition focus duplicated information provided elsewhere. An example of this was where the acquisition focus lists the major holdings. In such instances we have amalgamated the responses and included the information in one section or the other. Quantity figures are provided in linear metres.
Most institutions maintain statistics on use of collections.
However, very few could provide details of the quantity much less the area of significance. For the larger collecting institutions it was inappropriate, if not impossible, to limit a response to only five collections per category. During follow up such institutions were invited to submit a response in prose form including both major focuses and strengths of the overall collection. All information submitted to answer this question appears as Major holdings . For that reason we have excluded references to Our Heritage and Register of Church Archives .