1. Legal deposit method
It refer to receiving materials from government departments either in one copy or two for permanent preservation in archive and dissemination to users.
2. Direct collection method
This is methods where by the archivist collects materials which has archival value from public offices and take them to archive.
3. Purchasing
The archives receives money from government for acquiring materials from personnel eg Joseph Murumbi Collection which was acquired by Kenya National Archives.
4. Donation/gifts
These are materials which have archival value received from people at a given time. The archivist examines such materials and approves their value before accepting them
Once accepted a form is filled called a gift deed to ensure that donation is not reclaimed by the former owner or his descendants.
The gift is filled with the following details;
- Dates.
- Description of gift in details.
- Signature of the donor.
- Signature of the recipient.
- Instruction on use if applicable.
5. Loans from other institutions
Archives share documents ie a record can be borrowed in other archive.
6. Bequests
It is similar to a donation except it includes surrendering of all rights to the archives.
7. Migrated archive
It’s a method of acquisition where by migrated records are reclaimed from a country eg Kenya reclaims the migrated records from Britain.
Titany answered the question on July 23, 2021 at 08:30
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