Business Archives Council Of Scotland | Home About Us A Brief History Of BACS Timeline Executive Committee Join Us Events Conference: Liquid Gold Previous Events Remembering Michael Moss ICA-SBA 2023 Conference Projects 60 years of BACS 60th Anniversary Films Enterprising Scotland Collecting in a Crisis: A Guide to Rescuing Business Records National Strategy Capturing the Energy Scotland’s Hundred Oldest Companies Elements for a National Policy Journal Business and Industrial History Author Index Beveridge-Cunningham Denholm-Eve French-Harvie Johnstone-Lyon MacAskill-Moss Nisbett-Russell Seargeant-Turton Walker-Wood Newsletters Resources Case Studies For Businesses Why Business Archives Surveying Officer For Archivists and Users Financial Records Training Contact Us Home About Us A Brief History Of BACS Timeline Executive Committee Join Us Events Conference: Liquid Gold Previous Events Remembering Michael Moss ICA-SBA 2023 Conference Projects 60 years of BACS 60th Anniversary Films Enterprising Scotland Collecting in a Crisis: A Guide to Rescuing Business Records National Strategy Capturing the Energy Scotland’s Hundred Oldest Companies Elements for a National Policy Journal Business and Industrial History Author Index Beveridge-Cunningham Denholm-Eve French-Harvie Johnstone-Lyon MacAskill-Moss Nisbett-Russell Seargeant-Turton Walker-Wood Newsletters Resources Case Studies For Businesses Why Business Archives Surveying Officer For Archivists and Users Financial Records Training Contact Us About Us Journal Projects Events Resources Records at Risk: Centre for Contemporary Arts and Third Eye Centre Archive Along with many others in the archives sector, the executive committee of the Business Archives Council of Scotland is concerned at the proposed sale of the Centre for Contemporary Arts and Third Eye Centre archive collections. We have written to the Cabinet Secretary for Education, Culture and Gaelic Màiri McAllan MSP to outline these concerns. Established in 1960 to actively preserve the records of Scottish business and industry, BACS continues to advocate today for the management and preservation of Scotlands historically significant business records. Liquidations and business failures have long been part of the landscape of business archives and cases are routinely monitored and responded to by the Business Archives Surveying Officer for Scotland. As such we recognise that Insolvency Practitioners have a duty to realise company assets during the liquidation process and that archive collections can be considered under these terms. However, ethical consideration of the disposal of assets such as archives, whose significance may extend far beyond their monetary value must be prioritised. The sale or dispersal of the CCA and Third Eye Centre archive could set a damaging precedent, treating culturally significant archival collections primarily as financial assets and risking the irreversible loss of their historical context, research value, and wider public benefit. Read the full letter. The Business Archives Council of Scotland has been delighted to partner with Townsweb Archiving and their PastView platform to transform access to the digitised back catalogue of our journal Scottish Business and Industrial History. Find out more about this project here. Why not subscribe to our email newsletter and keep up to date with the future of Scotland’s business and industrial heritage. Join Now Free Email Updates Get the latest content first. We respect your privacy.