Our Services

Whether it’s a one-off session, teaching and training, project-based collaboration or strategic consulting, Day Consultancy offers tailored services across a broad range of areas within the records and archives management field. Whatever you’re size or sector, we’d be delighted to hear from you and to discuss how we can be of service.

Records Management

  • Records management policies.

  • Retention and disposal schedules.

  • Filing plans and systems.

  • Management of storage.

  • Electronic Document and Records Management Systems (EDRMS).

  • Security and confidentiality classification.

  • Retention schedules, metadata and access planning.

  • Digitisation and digital preservation.

  • Services to internal stakeholders.

  • Enhancing accessibility of current records.

  • Transfer to archives / lawful disposal.

  • ISO 15489 / 27001

Archives Management

  • Arrangement, cataloguing and accessioning.

  • Appraisal and transfer policy.

  • Acquisitions policy.

  • Readers’ services.

  • Volunteers and volunteer policy.

  • Obligations under the National Archives Act (public sector).

  • Content Management Systems (CMS).

  • Outreach.

  • Digital and physical exhibitions.

  • Special collection initiatives: oral history, privately donated papers etc.

  • ISO 11799 / PD 5454

Statutory Requirements

  • National Archives.

  • Data Protection.

  • Freedom of Information.

  • Birth, Information and Tracing.

  • Statutory compliance audit.

Finance and Procurement

  • Tendering qualification and award criteria.

  • Specialist procurement for records management and historical / heritage projects.

  • Understanding current and capital costs associated with records and archives management.

  • Specialist materials and equipment procurement.

Human Resources

  • Interviewing and onboarding records managers and archivists.

  • Contracting records managers and archivists.

  • Professional and industry standards for records and archives management.

Sensitive Records Collections

  • Risk mitigation and ethical access.

  • Classified and human rights records.

  • Cultural property protection (1954 Hague Convention).

Archival Facility Planning

  • Infrastructure and space audits.

  • Providing accessibility to your collections.

  • Reading-room operations.

  • Compliance with archival standards.

  • Hybrid collections and workflow design.