Trust me, I'm from the Archives: building relationships with depositors of business archives

Abstract

For over 50 years, Australian archivists have been collecting business archives from companies and businesses, and making those records available for research. This paper examines the circumstances in which businesses entrust an archives with their history and the evidence of their past operations, and discusses the policies and procedures in regard to acquisition, documentation, disposal, access and outreach, that a collecting archives, such as the Noel Butlin Archives Centre at the Australian National University, adopts to encourage that trust. Show more