BACS - Corporate Connections + AGM

The Business Archives Council Scotland is pleased to present the next Corporate Connections event combined with the BACS AGM. The BACS team invite members who are business archivists and business archive custodians to this informal event where current challenges, successes and ideas are shared through online discussion.

Papers for the AGM are available on the BACS website here.

Corporate Connections

Corporate Connections is an initiative by BACS to encourage face to face conversations, bringing together the small community of business archivists and custodians of business archives in Scotland, many of whom work alone, to share our experiences. Regular social meet ups will be held every few months, with a rotating theme to kick start conversations and allow you to meet your peers. Anything and everything business archives will be openly discussed among friends.

The theme of this event is ‘Collecting in a Crisis’ – A Guide to Rescuing Business Records. Discussion will be led by Christopher Cassells, Business Archives Council Surveying Officer, who will introduce a recent BACS/ SCA publication on the topic and lead discussion about the role of businesses and caring for their collections in times of crisis.

This event will be followed by the BACS AGM where a summary of the years events will be provided and officers elected onto the committee for 2021. Papers will be provided to delegates as required.

• Where: Online – Zoom link will be sent to attendees in advance
• When: Wednesday 16th December 2020, 10.30am – 12.00am
• What: Chris will introduce the recent BACS/SCA publication, Collecting in a Crisis: A guide to rescuing business records, and share his experiences of working with businesses and business archives through the pandemic.

• How: Please reserve a place via this Eventbrite.

Places are limited so we advise booking early to avoid disappointment. Please direct any questions or comments to karyn.williamson@aberdeenstandard.com