Collections Development Policy

Reviewed and updated August 2023 

Approved by Steve Lloyd, Head of Cultural Services, 24 October 2023 

This document will be reviewed and updated in 2026 in line with the Archives Service Accreditation programme.

  1. Purpose of Policy
  2. Scope of existing archive collections
  3. Exceptions
  1. Appraisal/Acquisition of archives
  2. Developing the archive collections
  3. Disposal of archives

6. Disposal of archives

Sometimes we decide that archives are not sufficiently significant to be preserved permanently.

6.1 This decision may be made during the initial selection and appraisal process, but there may also be occasions after archives have been acquired when a collection is reviewed and we decide that the material is no longer worth preserving permanently.

6.2 Unwanted material will be treated in one of the following ways:

  • returned to the depositor
  • confidentially destroyed, with the depositor's permission, by an approved contractor, in accordance with Lancashire County Council's Information Governance policy no 9 – Retention and Disposal/ Destruction Policy, 2020.
  • transferred, with the depositor's permission, to another archive service

6.3 The appraisal and disposal of material will be recorded in Lancashire Archives' collections management system.

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