Hospitality
Industry
Archives
&
Library
Students in
my graduate class on archival management are asking for clarification. It
seems that there are no clear guidelines on the usage of archive vs. archives,
not even in the book A Glossary for Archivists, Manuscript Curators,
and Records Managers. The students' reading assignments from the Archival Fundamental
Series use both forms inter-changeably, even when referring to a single
subject collection.
I use the
plural form of the word because we have multiple number of separate collections
on over 40 different hospitality companies. However, when we only had one
collection from the office of Conrad N. Hilton, founder of Hilton and Hilton
International Hotel corporations, I used "archive" in the singular form.
I figure
with over 2000 members on this listserve that perhaps we could get some good
answers.
Many thanks
for your input. Cathleen Baird, Houston, TX