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

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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 Presentation

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Page 1: Our Initiatives for Raising Archival Awareness: Case of Japanese Business Archives and Archivists

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

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Shibusawa Ei’ichi Memorial Foundation

Shibusawa Memorial Museum, Shibusawa Ei’ichi Memorial Foundation

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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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Page 4: Our Initiatives for Raising Archival Awareness: Case of Japanese Business Archives and Archivists

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

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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

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Directory of Business Archives in Japan on the Web

http://www.shibusawa.or.jp/center/dir/open/cp12.html

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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

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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

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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

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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