ABSTRACT Collaboration has risen up the agenda for archives and universities in recent years, yet there is unrealized potential for co-productive modes of research between archivists and academics, with business collections facing particular obstacles. This article, co-written by an archivist and a historian, presents the findings of a project that aims to support business archivists to develop co-designed research projects that mobilize business collections in rigorous ways to meet present-day business priorities (and so demonstrate to parent organizations the value of their archives and expert archivists). The project involved a collaborative process of workshops, interviews and a survey, which has allowed the project network to develop guidance materials. The authors discuss three key themes that emerged from the process, reflecting the distinctive concerns of archivists working in organizational repositories and the factors that influence their pursuit of academic collaborations. There then follows an analysis of ‘mind-set’ barriers to collaboration: questions of professional culture and practice or intellectual stance that can influence attitudes to and pursuit of collaborative projects between historians and archivists. The authors argue for an open and dialogic approach to designing collaborative research, acknowledging the constraints and imperatives for archivists and academics and recognizing the complementarity of their expertise.

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从交易到合作：重新定义商业馆藏中的学术档案工作者关系

摘要 近年来，合作已成为档案馆和大学的议程，但档案工作者和学者之间的合作研究模式尚未实现，商业收藏面临特殊障碍​​。这篇由档案管理员和历史学家共同撰写的文章介绍了一个项目的发现，该项目旨在支持商业档案管理员开发共同设计的研究项目，以严格的方式调动商业馆藏以满足当今的商业优先事项（并因此证明上级组织的档案和专家档案工作者的价值）。该项目涉及研讨会、访谈和调查的协作过程，这使得项目网络能够开发指导材料。作者讨论了该过程中出现的三个关键主题，反映了在组织知识库中工作的档案工作者的独特关注以及影响他们追求学术合作的因素。然后是对合作的“思维定势”障碍的分析：专业文化和实践或知识立场的问题会影响历史学家和档案工作者之间对合作项目的态度和追求。作者主张采用开放和对话的方法来设计合作研究，承认档案工作者和学者的限制和必要性，并承认他们专业知识的互补性。可以影响对历史学家和档案工作者之间合作项目的态度和追求的专业文化和实践或知识立场的问题。作者主张采用开放和对话的方法来设计合作研究，承认档案工作者和学者的限制和必要性，并承认他们专业知识的互补性。可以影响对历史学家和档案工作者之间合作项目的态度和追求的专业文化和实践或知识立场的问题。作者主张采用开放和对话的方法来设计合作研究，承认档案工作者和学者的限制和必要性，并承认他们专业知识的互补性。