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The crucial distinction between institutional record-keeping (describing what happened through charters, policies, minutes, and reports) and institutional memory (preserving why it mattered through governed intent). A record can survive intact while meaning silently decays.
Archives contain the 1950 board minutes authorising a scholarship fund (record), but not the specific concerns about class mobility that motivated it (memory)—enabling later boards to redirect funds without realising the departure.
IMG Section 3