Public Record Office: Internal Standards and Guidance

PRO 73

1987

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.

Public Record(s)

English

Records not yet available

The National Archives

Topics

Archives and libraries

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.

Notable guidance on significant areas of PRO internal administration (e.g. cataloguing projects).

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.