Fife Council Archive looks after documents covering the last 500 years of Fife history. These include the minute books of Fife Council and records of the other official bodies that have been maintaining roads and dealing with other countywide issues since 1709. All sorts of different people appear in the records, including schoolteachers and pupils, coal miners, and even witches.

The Archive's main role is to ensure the permanent preservation of the records and to make them available to members of the public at the Archive Centre. It is open to the public from Monday to Friday from 9am to 12 noon and from 1pm to 5pm (by appointment). It can arrange to stay open until 7.15pm on Tuesdays (as long as this has been arranged in advance with the Archivist).

Some of the Council's archive records are stored elsewhere at Libraries, Museums and other Council buildings - ask staff for further details.

There are no charges for using the Archive Centre. It does charge for photocopying and scanned copies.

The Fife Council Archives Catalogue describes the records held at Fife Council's Archive Centre - it does not contain images of the documents. Records include school records, town council minutes, Dean of Guild plans, hospital records, the Fife Constabulary records and the Scotspeak Sound Archive.

Local and Family History Collections are also held by Cupar Library, Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Kirkcaldy Central Library.