Business Bites
In 2023, the Business Archives Council of Scotland and the Business Archives Council joined forces to present a joint programme of regular online webinars on subjects related to Business Archives. Business Bites is the name of this initiative to encourage conversations, bringing together the small community of business archivists and custodians of business archives across the UK, many of whom work alone, to share our experiences.
These will continue throughout 2024 and we will hold a Business Bites event every two months with the first event in February on Research Using Business Archives. The full programme will be shared below once confirmed. All Business Bites sessions are held on the last Wednesday of every second month. Events for 2024 are planned for February, April, June, September, December.
This new partnership means that our online events will be a mixture of member only events with 50% of events still open to all. Normally our regular in-person events are for BACS members who are business archivists or custodians of business archive collections. Not a BACS member already? Come along to see what BACS has to offer and become a member! (Annual membership starts from £10 for an Individual Member, £20 for Organisational Membership, £50 for Corporate Membership).
The theme of the April event is – The Importance of Record Surveying. This event is open to ALL. Register here to take part.
Where: Online – via Zoom
When: Wednesday, 24th April February 2024, 12.30pm – 13.30pm
How: To reserve a place, sign up using this link
What: The Importance of Record Surveying
The Surveying Officer will share recent success stories and partnerships to illustrate this 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 a survey bring to your archive service?
- What role does surveying play in current archive collecting procedures?
Our speaker will be Rachael Muir – Business Archive Surveying Officer for Scotland. Rachael is currently the eighteenth Business Archives Surveying Officer in Scotland, a role that has existed since 1977. Prior to surveying and consulting on business archive collections, Rachael has eight years corporate experience as an archivist at the Bank of England Archive. Additionally, she served as Chair of the Archive and Records Association’s Section of Business Records, and a judge on the Business Archives Council’s cataloguing grant.
Please direct any questions or comments to Business.Bites.Contact@gmail.com
Corporate Connections
Corporate Connections was an initiative launched by BACS in 2017 (and ran to 2023) to encourage face to face conversations, bringing together the small community of business archivists and custodians of business archives in Scotland, many of whom work alone to share our experiences. Regular social meet ups were held twice a year, with a rotating theme to kick start conversations and let you meet your peers. Anything and everything business archives was openly discussed among friends. From 2020, due to Covid-19 lockdown restrictions, our Corporate Connections events moved online. The BACS team invited those with an interest in business archives to these informal online talks where current challenges, successes and ideas were shared over virtual tea and biscuits (to be provided by the attendees!)