Message-ID: <A3CF0F00A9C348AE9DB881B6DF6513A1@D6M9HM91> From: "Kathy Laakso" <dchs@douglashistory.org> Subject: Re: Archive vs Reference Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:22:19 -0500
I've been meaning to ask a similar question about what we have. We have
records that businesses have given us to preserve after they went out of
business. What about our own organization?
As we were cleaning one day, we found several old paid invoices from our
museum shop and from services we used for daily operations. These are
maybe 20 or 30 years old. Do we make sure there's a report stating how
much we paid for merchandise sold in the museum shop or keep the paid
invoice copies? If someone were to research the Douglas County
Historical Society's operations 50 years from now, would the reports be
enough, or will the original "primary reference resource" material be of
use? Or, should we save reports and an example of the bills that came
in? Since our society has been around for over 100 years, you can
imagine how much "stuff" has accumulated.
Kathy Laakso
Director, DCHS
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From: Bill & Barb
To: localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 4:55 PM
Subject: Archive vs Reference
What is the difference between an archive and reference materials?
Bill Gover
Bayfield Heritage Association
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