Archives collect material based on their own special set of criteria. There are many archives with a very specific scope of collecting (e.g.The Archive for Research in Archetypical Symbolism) and some that are very broad (e.g. National Archives). Some types of archives include:
- College and university archives (that's us!)
- Corporate archives
- Government archives
- Historical societies
- Museums
- Religious archives
- Special collections
See a list of archives in the United States (not complete)
