Glossary of terms
What's the difference between restoration, preservation and conservation? Why does the word 'cataloguing' mean different things to different people? The staff at the LMA will tell you all about the words and phrases they encounter on a daily basis.
Service AssistantContinuous ProductionDocuments are not retrieved at set times but non-stop throughout the day. This method is used by very large archives such as The National Archives at Kew. Document ProductionThe process by which documents are ordered by the public; then produced by Services Assistants in the Reading Room and finally returned to their rightful location in the strong room. Usually this is done at set times. |