title: Honoring Our Hospital's History: A Preservation and Digitization Initiative.
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.
authors.affiliation: a Elizabeth Dafoe Library , University of Manitoba , Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada.
authors.forename: Kerry
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Macdonald
authors.affiliation: b Neil John Maclean Library, University of Manitoba , Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada.
authors.forename: Jordan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bass
authors.affiliation: c Seven Oaks General Hospital , Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada.
authors.forename: Toby
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Maloney
mesh_terms: D001109:Archives; D003657:Decision Making; D006268:Health Facilities; D006801:Humans
keywords: Archives; corporate records; digitization; hospitals; preservation