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He collected vinyl records. When the collection grew up to thousands, he created the shop Record-Rama. Then, he started to archive a copy of every sold album. In 2003, his music archive held 2 million items, twice the size of the Library of Congress similar collection. When the store was closed in 2008, there were 3 million items.
Many presidential libraries include archives. Many large organizations such as universities , corporations , newspapers , and so on maintain archives consisting of the papers and records which have been created during the course of the organization's life.
Carlos Martín Ballester (born 1974): 75,000 78 rpm records (carlosmb archive) plus 5,000 78 rpms records and 200 cylinders (private collection). [27] It is the largest collection of 78 rpm records pressed in Spain. Part of the archive is on sale and new items are added regularly. [28] Elton John (born 1947): 70,000 items. [29]
The first Archivist, R. D. W. Connor, began serving in 1934, when the National Archives was established as an independent federal agency by Congress. The Archivists served as subordinate officials of the General Services Administration from 1949 until the National Archives and Records Administration became an independent agency again on April 1 ...
Some national archives collections are large, holding millions of items spanning several centuries, while others have been created more recently and have modest collections. Many national archives are effectively dispersed, especially in post-colonial countries, and often have smaller local collections due to cultural imperialism and the theft ...
The Council of State Archivists (CoSA) is a non-profit membership association of the United States state and territorial government archives. [2]Originally established as the Council of State Historical Records Coordinators (COSHRC) in 1989, CoSA incorporated as a non-profit in 2002. [3]
Archives management is the area of management concerned with the maintenance and use of archives.It is concerned with acquisition, care, arrangement, description and retrieval of records once they have been transferred from an organisation to the archival repository.
The SAA also says, in their "Guidelines for College and University Archives", that appraisal should be based on the mission statement of the archives and that archivists, using appraisal, will determine what records belong in the archives, based on the "long-term administrative, legal, fiscal, and research value" of the records themselves. [4]