Abstract
business records should be retained? Which business records should be discarded? Every business archives with a space problem has appraisal criteria, formal or informal, for maintaining and disposing of materials. Every business archives threatened by a space shortage inevitably must develop such criteria. Archivists with business holdings are well equipped often better equipped than business historians to determine which records should be kept and which should be thrown away. But the views of the business historian, as the chief client of the business archives, perhaps can help the archivist to improve his retention-disposal criteria. If this premise is correct, the following suggestions for the handling of business materials may be of interest and value to those who must pare burgeoning business collections.
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