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Catalogue description Public Record Office: Internal Standards and Guidance
| Reference: | PRO 73 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Public Record Office: Internal Standards and Guidance |
| Description: |
This series contains significant guidance for internal staff on significant areas of work relating to the key functions of the Public Record Office: e.g. guidance on cataloguing public records, user guides for key systems employed by the PRO. |
| Date: | 1987 |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Public Record Office, 1838-2003 |
| Access conditions: | Records not yet available |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
The National Archives |
| Custodial history: | The records were held by the Public Record Office prior to April 2001 and were in the custody of the National Archives after April 2003 when the former institution became the latter. |
| Selection and destruction information: | Notable guidance on significant areas of PRO internal administration (e.g. cataloguing projects). |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
Guidance has occassionally been required for internal Public Record Office staff to ensure that their duties have been carried out correctly. Such records have been preserved in this series if it is felt they shed a useful light upon the functions of the Office to researchers. Any division / department/ bureau / unit within the Public Record Office may have had recourse to produce internal guidance to its staff to improve business processes and the services provided to its customers. For this reason, an administrative history detailing where guidance was created is an unfeasible undertaking. Therefore, researchers are referred to the Keepers Annual Reports PRO 43 to establish the organisation of the Public Record Office when attempting to trace which Unit issued the guidance at a specific time. |
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