Business Bites: Advocacy and Celebration Our fourth Business Bites session of 2025 was held on Wednesday, 24th September on the theme of Advocacy and Celebration. Advocacy is one of the most important tools in the toolbox of business archivists. Being able to express the importance of what...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Our third Business Bites session of 2025 was held on Wednesday, 25th June on the theme of Records at Risk. Hosted by the UK Crisis Management Team in partnership with the ARA Section for Business Records. This session...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] 2025 AGM The 2025 AGM for the Business Archives Council of Scotland took place on Thursday 12th June at the Scotch Whisky Experience in Edinburgh. The papers discussed are below: 2025 AGM Agenda 2024 AGM Minutes 2025 Annual Report...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] Raise Your Glass Raise Your Glass! Toasting the invaluable contribution of brand heritage and archives to the drinks industry In June 2025, the Business Archives Council of Scotland held a summer conference, ‘Raise Your Glass! Toasting the invaluable contribution...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Our first Business Bites session of 2025 was held on 26th February on the topic of Cataloguing Business Archives. Cataloguing is a main component of an Archivist’s work. But there is no one size fits all process, and...
In November 2024 we held our joint conference with the Business Archives Council on the theme of ‘Liquid Gold: realising the potential of your business archive collections’. Scotland’s most famous spirit and one of the nation’s greatest exports is affectionately known as liquid gold, and our conference explored the...
The theme of this event is – Commercial Opportunities for Cultural Heritage Organisations Where: Online – via ZoomWhen: 25/09/2024 12.30 – 13.30 What: The creative industries generate approximately £24 billion pounds worth of value to the UK economy. A substantial component of this will be the identification, management and optimisation of...
Business Bites: Environmental Sustainability Our June Business Bites event was on the topic of environmental sustainability. Theme: Environmental Sustainability Where: Online – via Zoom When: Wednesday 26th June 2024, 12.30pm – 13.30pm Last year, we hosted a Business Bites event on Environmental Sustainability. Alexandra Wade from the...
2024 AGM The 2024 AGM for the Business Archives Council of Scotland was held on Thursday 20th June at the AK Bell Library in Perth and included talks on the topic of archives and museums and a tour of Perth & Kinross Archives. PROGRAMME 13:45 – Arrival/Intros 14:00 –...
In May (rescheduled from April) the Business Archives Surveying Officer shared recent success stories and partnerships to illustrate this unique archive role in Scotland, as well as discussing the following questions: What tools do you need to carry out a records survey? What benefits can...