Our Services

Day Consultancy offers tailored strategic and management consulting, as well as advisory and training services, for public and private sector clients across a broad range of areas with the records and archives management field. To discuss how we can assist with these, or any other areas not listed here, we’d be delighted to hear from you.

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.

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.

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 for 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.