Title & Author:

The records of American business / edited by James M. O'Toole.

Publication:

Chicago : The Society of American Archivists, 1997.

Description:

xvii, 411 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Notes:
Some of the essays were presented at a symposium held in April 1996.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction-Business and American culture: the archival challenge / Francis X. Blouin, Jr. -- Business history and archival practice: shifts in sources and paradigms / Michael Nash -- Evolving role of in-house business archives: from tradition to flexibility / Marcy G. Goldstein -- Archival mythology and corporate reality: a potential powder keg / Philip F. Mooney -- View from the Inside: corporate executives and the records of American business / Edward G. Jefferson, Dolores Hanna, and Michael Miles -- Strategy, structure, detail, function: four parameters for the appraisal of business records / Christopher T. Baer -- Avoiding accidents of evidence: functional analysis in the appraisal of business records / Bruce H. Bruemmer -- Documentation with an attitude: a pragmatist's guide to the selection and acquisition of modern business records / Mark A. Greene and Todd J. Daniels-Howell -- Blown to bits: electronic records, archivy, and the corporation / Richard J. Cox -- Facing reality: oral history, corporate culture, and the documentation of business / James E. Fogerty -- Corporate memory in sound and visual records / Ernest J. Dick -- Beyond business: external documentation and corporate records / Timothy L. Ericson -- Reaching the mass audience: business history as popular history / John A. Fleckner -- Collecting repositories and corporate archives: variations on a theme? / Karen Benedict -- Business records: the prospect from the global village / Michael S. Moss and Lesley M. Richmond.
English.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

0931828457 (alk. paper)
9780931828454 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Business records United States Management.
Business enterprises United States Archives.
Corporations United States Archives.
Archives United States Administration.
Documents administratisf États-Unis Gestion.
Entreprises États-Unis Archives.
Sociétés États-Unis Archives.
Archives États-Unis Administration.
Gestion des documents États-Unis.
Archives Administration
Business enterprises
Business records Management
Commerce
Corporations
Ondernemingen.
Archieven.
United States Commerce History Sources.
États-Unis Commerce Histoire Sources.
United States

Form/genre:

Congress
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Archives
History
Sources
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

O'Toole, James M., 1950- editor of compilation.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 204701
Call No.: HF5736 .R3625 1997
Status: Available