Launch of the BRG

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The Business Records Group was officially launched on 3 May 2001, with an afternoon of presentations and discussions, followed by a launch party generously hosted by Unilever.

Jeannette Strickland, Chair of BRG, introduced the Group to the gathered members, and explained its inception as a body to represent the interests of archivists who work with business records, both within corporate archives and in other repositories. There followed a lively series of discussions as the members sought to define further the Group’s role and the activities it should undertake.

One of the BRG workshops
[Image copyright of Jeannette Strickland]

Key conclusions arising from the discussions were that the Group should survey members to gain more information about their needs and skills, and that it would aim to keep in touch with members electronically. There was a general consensus that the Group should not be afraid to organise training events that dealt with the basics: accounting records, cataloguing accruals and appraisal were noted as hot topics. Members were generally agreed that the Group had much to gain from collaborating with organisations with whom there was a natural overlap: the Business Archives Council, the Society’s Specialist Repositories Group and Records Management Group, and the Records Management Society.

Having undertaken to progress all these suggestions, and come up with strategies for moving the Group forward, the committee led the way to the launch party, and discussions continued amid the food and drink!

Lucy Jones, Group Archivist, British Telecommunications plc

The BRG Committee 2001 – left to right: Helen Ford, Melanie Peart, Jeannette Strickland, Natasha Cole-Jones, David Hay, Teresa Doherty and Jessie Campbell. Strangely absent Will Bell, Nigel Hardman and Claire Tunstall
[Image copyright of Jeannette Strickland]

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