Archival and Special Collections Facilities: Guidelines for Archivists, Librarians, Architects, and Engineers

Facilities Guidelines (TS-AFG) has continued to review the facility guidelines, assess their application, evaluate new research, and solicit comments and reviews. This document supplies the first draft revisions to the 2009 standards for archival facilities. Not all chapters have been included here. The chapters included in this review draft are in the early stages of development, have not been formally edited or formatted, and do not include related graphs, charts, text boxes and photographs. They have not been reviewed by the SAA Standards Committee, the SAA Council, or outside groups and individuals. Please note that the chapters are early drafts and some material will be cut or reduced to tables and charts in the final drafting. We are making them available at this time for informal review at the Society of American Archivists meeting being held in Washington, DC in August 2014. We have found that the annual conference is an excellent time to discuss our work on archival facilities with colleagues. The completed working draft will be submitted to the SAA Standards Committee for formal review. The SAA Standards Committee will circulate the working to US and