Abstract
Best-practices guidelines reflecting the consensus of experienced professionals are invaluable for archives with enough resources to implement them. For many archives, however, such guidelines may fail to meet on-the-ground needs and may set the bar too high. Some organizations respond by ignoring the guidelines entirely, failing to realize that short of best practices, they still have responsible and creditable options. The preservation operations of many archives will benefit from an established set of minimum standards that must be met, as well as best practices to which to aspire. (See for example Bamberger and Brylawski 2010, 68).
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