Translations:Breng je archief en collectie(s) in kaart/12/en

It's rare that you find complete chaos. People generally have their reasons for storing certain documents or objects in a particular place, or keeping certain documents or objects together (or apart):

• Documents or objects of the same type are often stored together, e.g. a box of programmes.
• Documents or objects originating from the same person, activity or event. You may well store a box of documents brought in by an ex-director as a whole, for example, even if it contains different types of documents.
• The condition of documents or objects, or the way in which they have been organised, is often very revealing. Newly purchased books are kept separate from older collections, or older copies might be in such a poor condition that they're ready to be thrown away.
• Documents that ‘belong together’ are usually kept in the same folder or box. Take this idea as your starting point and describe your archive and collections at ‘packaging unit’ level.