University of Glasgow | Archive Services

University of Glasgow | Archives 1955-1998

University of Glasgow | Business Records Centre 1975-1998

University of Glasgow | Archives and Business Records Centre 1998-2000

Archive Services is located at three sites. The University Records Centre is at 12 Dunaskin Street, an office is at 77-87 Dumbarton Road, and the searchroom is at 13 Thurso Street.

Archive Services was created in 2000 following the renaming of the Archives and Business Records Centre.

Archive Services is the central place of deposit for the records of the University created and accumulated since its foundation in 1451. The oldest records are charters dating from 1304 conveying land and privileges which eventually came into University hands. The department acts as the guardian of the University's collective memory as revealed in the records of management, administration, staff and students and thus protects the rights of all members of the University community. The department is also the guardian of Scotland's business and industrial history.

The central aims of the department are to assist and promote the study of the past through the use of the archives it holds, in order to inform the present and the future and to advise the University on record keeping issues and related information policy matters.

In 1991, the service became part of the Academic Services Planning Unit. It subsequently became part of the Information Services Planning Unit. In 2004, following a reorganisation of the University's administration, it became part of the Information Services Division of Administrative, Information and Management Services.

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Authority record created according to the National Council on ArchivesRules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names (NCA Rules)1997 and International Council on Archives: Ad Hoc Committee on Descriptive StandardsInternational Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families (ISAAR)CPF1995.

Corporate name authority record compiled by Moira Rankin, senior archivist, 4 February 2004. Revised by Victoria Peters, research archivist, 9 December 2004.