Business Records: Value & Uses
  • In-House Advantages of Corporate Archives
  • The importance of corporate memory
  • The necessity of maintaining legal records
  • Advertising
  • Use in training and orientation of new employees
  • Useful in company publications

  • Types of records encountered: (defunct businesses)
  • Minutes (Governance)
  • Correspondence
  • Internal communications (memos) and publications
  • Patents
  • Marketing strategies
  • Training materials
  • Employee Records/Personnel Files (more commonly found in defunct organizations)
  • Attendance/Disciplinary files (more commonly found in defunct organizations)
    •

  • Scholarly Uses of Corporate Archives
  • Studying labour and work conditions
  • Understanding 'disruptive technologies'
  • The study of material culture
  • Architectual history

    • Back to Lecture Outline