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Welcome to the latest SAA Business Archives Section News!!  The Section Newsletter began in 1984 as a paper publication distributed to section members. Now, recent news is posted to the Business Archives Section Website. To contribute articles to the SAA Business Archives Section Newsletter, contact the current editor.


2005 July -- Section Announces Colloquium

The SAA Business Archives Section announced the contents of the August 18th Colloquium to be held in ew Orleans at the 2005 annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists. Information about the colloquium and the all-important business archives mixer can be found here.

2005 June -- Cox Letter in American Archivist Provokes Business Archivists

Just when you thought it was safe to look at the cover of the American Archivist, the latest issue (volume 68, number 1) contains two letters to the editor unsympathetic to complaints over the Sun Mad Raisin cover of volume 66, number 2. The first, authored by Richard Cox of the University of Pittsburgh, wonders how archivists working in a business setting can maintain an ethical practice. Not surprsingly, business archivists reacted strongly to this assertion. Some comments can be read on the Archives and Archivists mailing list. No doubt this will be a topic of discussion at the 2005 annual meeting. Sun Mad Poster

2004 November -- Minutes from Boston Meeting Available

The minutes from the 2004 meeting of the SAA Business Archives Section are available in Acrobat here.