n.a record created or received by an organization in the course of its activitiesDeutrich 1961, 396The foremost of the Catholic institutional archives is that of the University of Notre Dame. Besides the archdiocesan archives mentioned above, it contains records of dioceses and other organizational records, a large number of personal papers of Catholic clergymen and laymen, and records relating to the university.Walle 1985, 121The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center of Howard University has used deposit agreements extensively in its program of acquiring both personal papers and organizational records.Klassen 1990, 34Real though these potential problems are, concern about them should not be allowed to paralyze archivists’ efforts to deal responsibly with the need to preserve organizational records. Members of the archival profession must do more to get organizations to understand that their inactive records possess administrative value and, in some cases, are cultural assets as well. They should be encouraged to establish their own archives or to collaborate with a repository.Weinberg 1990, 123The Urban Archives acquires personal papers and organizational records in two fashions: (1) it accessions gifts, typically from individuals; and (2) it accepts deposits from organizations. In the latter case, more common at the Urban Archives, the agency maintains the physical and intellectual ownership of their records. Many of the collections have common characteristics in that they contain administrative, financial, and programmatic files that document the activities of the agency.Yeo 2008, 124Many definitions of records explicitly state that records may be created or maintained by individuals as well as organizations. Professional terminology, however, suggests otherwise; we commonly speak of organizational records but personal papers. Many expositions of the records life cycle and perhaps even of the continuum model rest on assumptions that records are created and kept in an institutional context.Nash 2010b, 77While union records represent some unique challenges that need to be addressed in arrangement and description, for the most part labor archivists rely on the general principles that have been developed for providing access to organizational records.Miller, Moon, and Voss 2011, 15I will focus on the International Museum of Women (IMOW), a virtual museum that began as the Women’s Heritage Museum (WHM). . . . The IMOW donated its organizational records to San José State University (SJSU) in 2010.Gasero et al. 2011, 24–25Having created a mission statement and collections management documentation, we continued with further discussions and review, outlining our hopes for a representative archives that would include an array of collections related to community agencies and organizational records, business, family and individual papers across the various streams of Judaism so that as many aspects of community life were included.White 2012, 120Organizational records, which come to the archives after their disposition by the agency or government department that created them, pose problems for archivists who must also consider legal issues pertaining to health records.Miller 2013, 523Whether these modern collections are personal papers or organizational records is probably incidental to the print characteristics they are presumed to have. This model may also be most applicable to personal papers because the legal requirements for government and some business records may stipulate specific outcomes beyond what is suggested here.SAA 2013bSensitive material may exist in organizational records. To protect the privacy of individuals or trade secrets, it may be necessary to discuss restrictions on access to portions of the collection.Rettig 2017, 413March on Milwaukee is a curated digital collection containing about 150 objects from 13 archival collections with a wide range of formats including audio, documents (handwritten and typed), photographs, and moving images. Additionally, the collection includes both personal and organizational records.Eckard, Gadelha, and Shallcross 2022, 403Formally established by the Regents of the University of Michigan in 1935, the Bentley [Historical Library] serves as both the official archives of the University of Michigan and a repository for organizational records and personal papers for entities from across the state.a record created or received by a military unit in the course of its activitiesTrever 1944a, 216The Organization Records Branch, Savannah, Georgia, the repository for the receipt, custody, and administration of currently inactive organizational records, preserves those records from the hazards of continued field storage and facilitates the ultimate transfer to the National Archives of those having permanent value.NARS 1951, 395Normally the organizational records of a unit consist of its general files, sets of its General Orders and other administrative documents, and copies of morning reports and other recurring reports. There is an unpublished history of the unit, consisting normally of several chronological installments, with appendixes of supporting documents.Morton 1953, 199The organizational records of GHQ, Southwest Pacific Area, MacArthur’s headquarters during the war, also contain some material of value. When used they were physically located in the Kansas City Records Center, AGO.
