A Review of: “HMO/PPO Directory 2011, 23rd ed. Gottlieb,Richard, ed.”

ABSTRACT

There is limited literature on hospital archives projects. Hospitals understandably have a strong focus on patient care, but there is still a critical need to keep institutional archives. Among their many uses, institutional archives preserve corporate memory, provide evidence of interactions with community, and assist in contemporary decision making. This column describes a university-hospital partnership to undertake a one-year project to preserve, detail, and digitize ten boxes, or approximately 3.8 meters, of materials dating from 1980 to 2006. This project serves as a model for other hospital or health care facilities wanting to preserve and more actively engage with their archival collections.     

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774–1873: Library of Congress,Washington, DC. Available from

《Journal of Government Information》2000,27(1):100-101