² Bain, G.S. and Woolven, G.B., “The primary materials of British industrial relations,” British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. ix, no. 3 (11 1971)Google Scholar.

³ The Centre is a department of the University Library, its staffing and support costs being met from the Library's resources, with the University Librarian as Director.

⁴ University of Warwick Library Occasional Publications no. 1.

⁵ These and other developments were examined by the present writer in “Labour archives in the United Kingdom,” Archivum, vol. xxvii (1980), pp. 147–167.

⁶ McDonald, G., “Insight into industrial politics: the Federation of British Industries papers, 1925,” Business Archives, no. 38 (06 1973), pp. 22–28Google Scholar. M. Wilcox, The Confederation of British Industry predecessor archive. University of Warwick Library Occasional Publications no. 12.

⁷ Other than the valuable contacts provided by a number of academics, especially successive members of the Academic Committee.

⁸ This included, for example, the formation in 1993 of Unison from three public sector unions, the Confederation of Health Service Employees, NALGO, and the National Union of Public Employees.

⁹ The present writer has attended with interest the first two international conferences on regional business archives in Europe, at Dortmund, 1991, and Mikkeli, 1993.

¹⁰ Information Leaflet no. 8.

¹¹ Storey, Richard, “A note on business attitudes in the sermons of the Rev. Silas Hocking,” Business Archives 48 (1982), pp. 31–34Google Scholar.

¹² In practice it has been found that the printed finding-aid series also serves as a useful aide-mémoire for staff and can assist the induction of new staff and expedite the answering of enquiries at a distance by the provision of photo-copied extracts.

¹³ Other than a restriction which may be imposed by a depositor, such as a thirty-year rule or the obtaining of prior written permission; other than charges for services, such as photo-copying or media use.

¹⁴ The most generous gift has been that of the personal papers of Sir Victor Gollancz, amounting to some tens of thousands of items, containing letters of intrinsic value, as well as adding up to a very rich source of political, social and literary history.

¹⁵ Most material in the Centre is held as a deposit on definite loan, with the transferring individual or institution retaining their right of ownership.

¹⁶ For the national context of this problem, not unique to Warwick, see the SCONUL/Society of Archivists Report and the Discussion Document, The Role and Resources of University Repositories (1989).