In light of the many natural and man-made disasters that
have happened in the past ten to twenty years (not to mention millennia aforehand), it might be a good practice for an institution’s
archives to exist in more places than just the institution’s
holdings. This may be overkill, but
if you are a large university, it might be a good idea to keep these types of
materials from other cultural institutions in your own holdings, knowing full
well that originals or other copies exist in the cultural institutions
themselves.
Of course, what you collect may be different, but
documenting the existence and operations (i.e., business transactions) of these
cultural institutions in your area may bode well for the twenty-second century
historian who, a century from now, finds that the smaller cultural institutions
dissolved and their archives were destroyed or disseminated in some funky
fashion, but the rock-solid archives of the large university are intact,
complete with materials pertinent to the history of the smaller now-defunct
cultural institutions.
Having a solid institution like a college, university, or
public archival facility that collects materials of other cultural institutions
may prove a wise choice in the future.
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