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The Relationship of Records Management Activities to the Field of Business History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2012

Maynard Brichford
Maynard Brichford
Affiliation:
University Archivist, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Abstract

A leading archivist describes the nature and functions of professional records management and suggests some relationships between those activities and business history. If future historians are to have useful records for research, present-day scholars need to be informed about and interested in the work of records managers.

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Business History Review , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , Summer 1972 , pp. 220 - 232
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1972

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