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PR departments as sources for archival collections
I really should be doing more work today but there are just all these
interesting things on the list. Anyway, I was struck by something
in Daniel's post about processing questions that he said about PR
departments, towit:
> We have several hospitals in the Health System, each of which
at some
> point was their own separate entity, with its own PR department.
I've
> divided our collections by facility, so Hosp A. will have a
collection of
> press releases, Hosp B will too, etc.
Here we've gotten several significant collections out of PR and
marketing departments at local ski resorts; in fact, we just picked
one up last week that contained an estimated 40,000 slides and
prints and 500 films and tapes, plus about 10 linear feet of papers,
from the marketing office of a local ski area. And I know of another
that we're working on from yet another local ski area marketing
department that's at least as big if not bigger. It seems the
PR/marketing folks collect all this stuff but then as ski fashions
change, they can't use it anymore because the clothes are out of
date. Our challenge has been to keep track of them and find out
before an office manager says "We need the room, toss all this old
stuff!"
The other challenge that comes with this is the source of the
materials; they are usually produced on contract by professional
photographers and videographers, so you start running into all sorts
of copyright issues.
However, in the case of the one mentioned above I can't see 40,000
slides being processed in my career so I'll leave it to my successor
to worry about!
Roy
Roy Webb, C.A.
Multimedia Archivist
Special Collections
J. Willard Marriott Library
295 South 1500 East
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
(801) 585-3073 // fax (801) 585-3976
rwebb@library.utah.edu
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