our initiatives for raising archival awareness: case of japanese business archives and archivists
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Our Initiatives for Raising Archival Awareness: Case of Japanese Business Archives and Archivists. Yuko Matsuzaki Business Archives Specialist Resource Center for the History of Entrepreneurship Shibusawa Ei’ichi Memorial Foundation http://www.shibusawa.or.jp/english/index.html. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Our Initiatives for Raising Archival Awareness:
Case of Japanese Business Archives and Archivists
Yuko MatsuzakiBusiness Archives Specialist
Resource Center for the History of EntrepreneurshipShibusawa Ei’ichi Memorial Foundation
http://www.shibusawa.or.jp/english/index.html
Shibusawa Ei’ichi Memorial Foundation
Shibusawa Memorial Museum, Shibusawa Ei’ichi Memorial Foundation
Shibusawa Ei’ichi Memorial Foundation
Rongo to Soroban(the Analects and Abacus)
= the compatibility of ethics and commercial
profit
⇒ Corporate social responsibility ⇒ “No archives, no accountability”
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Directory of Business Archives in Japan on the Web• Public release:
July 22, 2008
• A list of 23 in-house business archives, and 7 repositories
http://www.shibusawa.or.jp/center/dir/index.html
Directory of Business Archives in Japan on the Web
Including...
Bank of Japan ArchivesCanon Archives
Kao Museum and Corporate Archives
Matsushita (Panasonic) Archives
Toyota Archiveshttp://www.shibusawa.or.jp/center/dir/index.html
Directory of Business Archives in Japan on the Web
http://www.shibusawa.or.jp/center/dir/open/cp12.html
Email newsletter, Business Archives Newsletter
•Content▫ Information on literature
of business archives
▫ Information on international archival events
•Current number of subscription: 200
http://www.shibusawa.or.jp/center/ba/index.html
Email newsletter, Business Archives Newsletter• Examples in the past coverage
▫ Business Archives: Principles and Practice, Nos.93 & 95
▫ Ethics and the Archival Profession by K. Benedict
▫ American Archivist cover controversy
▫ Information on SAA annual meeting▫ Information on ASA annual conference
▫ Tata Central Archives (TCA), India http://www.shibusawa.or.jp/center/ba/bn/index.html
A derivative project: introducing entire articles•Example
▫Elizabeth W. Adkins, “Local History versus Corporate History: Responsible Archival Management of International Subsidiaries of Multinational Corporations,” the Business Archives in International Comparison: Report to the International Council on Archives (ICA) Congress 2004)
http://www.shibusawa.or.jp/center/ba/bunken/doc001_adkins.html
Some basic numbers of Japanese archives and archivists
The current membership of the Business Archives Association
88
The total number of full-time staff of the National Archives as of 2007
42
The number of local public (prefectural and municipal) archives
52
The estimated number of (self-reported) archivists in local public (prefectural and municipal) archives
No more than 250
The estimated number of (self-reported) archivists with Master’s degree in various subjects No more than
200