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many private enterprises have is related to the risk they put themselves 
at for saving the 'wrong' information and having it come back to bite 
them.
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I think businesses believe that an archivist wants to keep everything, and 
that a corporate archives is a big pile of risk and unnecessary expense. 
And the opposite is true. No archivist that I've ever met (and I used to 
be one), wants to keep everything. They target what is valuable to their 
organization in a Collections Policy, and they, as much as anyone, want to 
get rid of the chaff. 

Businesses would do well to consider an archives not so much as a 
repository, but a process. That process culls business records and 
information for items of long-term, historical, and legal value to the 
organization. Oftentimes that value includes establishing or proving a 
legal right of the organization. Viewed as a process that reduces risk 
rather than increases it, perhaps more businesses would have corporate 
archives.

Gary Link
Pittsburgh, PA
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