The International Business Archives Handbook: Understanding and Managing the Historical Records of Business

ISBN-13: 9780367882440 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 462 str.

Alison Turton

Opis

The handbook provides up-to-date information and guidance on key issues relating to the understanding and management of the historical records of businesses. It comprises chapter contributions from a range of experts in their respective fields, covering business archive and business history initiatives around the world. It offers practical advice c

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Editor’s preface

Part I: Business archives in context

1. An introduction to business archives  Katey Logan

2. The development of international business  Roy Edwards and Kevin Tennent

3. Changes in office technology  John Orbell

Part II: The nature of business records

4. Understanding core business records  Michael Moss

5. Understanding industry–specific business records  Lesley Richmond

Part III: Managing business archives

6. Organisation and objectives  Jeannette Strickland

7. Acquisition, appraisal, arrangement and description  Richard Wiltshire

8. Preservation  Alison Turton

9. Access  Alison Turton

10. Digital business archives  William Kilbride, James Mortlock and Tina Staples

11. Managing risk  Sara Kinsey

Part IV: Using business archives

12. Advocacy, outreach and the corporate archivist  Paul C. Lasewicz

13. The business history discipline  Leslie Hannah

Index

O autorze

Alison Turton has been Head of Archives at The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, UK, for over 28 years. Her previous edited handbook, Managing Business Archives (1991) has served as a major text in the field.