Beyond The Ordinary
Strategies for Sustainable Business Archives
Business Archives Council Annual Conference 2008
This year’s BAC Conference will be held at the Wellcome Library in London on
Wednesday 12th November 2008. It will focus on the various options for
owners of collections to consider when looking at the sustainability of their
archives in the long term. Traditionally companies have maintained and run
archives within the structure of the company, but now some are looking at
alternatives to this by considering a move to create trusts, work in
partnership, or donate their collections to other bodies such as Universities or
public sector record offices. Fundraising has also become more of an issue
with HLF and other funding bodies being prepared to consider projects which
include business archive collections. The BAC Conference will present options
which have already been adopted by some archives, with expert information
and a series of case studies highlighting these strategies. The Conference will
be of relevance to all business archivists and also those with an interest in the
sustainability and access to our heritage collections. The speakers will include
Joan Heggie of the British Steel Collection, Teresa Wilmshurst of the
Waterways Trust and Richard Taylor of the National Railways Museum. Katey
Logan and John Quail will host the afternoon’s Question Time panel which will
focus on the new national business archive strategy. All delegates will be
offered the opportunity to submit, in advance, a question to the session and
further debate will be encouraged!
The BAC Conference will be followed by the presentation of the Wadsworth
Prize for Business History which this year is kindly being hosted by Unilever.
Booking forms for the Conference are available from the BAC website
http://www.businessarchivescouncil.org.uk/activitiesobjectives/conference/co
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or from the Conference organiser Judy Faraday on 01438 312388 ext 4202;
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