What sorts of materials are of interest?
Archivists like to preserve records that document all aspects of a person’s life, from his or her student days through the professional career. In the same way, aspects of a corporation’s “life” are equally valuable. All of the following would be of great interest to the Silicon Valley Archives: unpublished professional correspondence, research notes, diaries, journals, project files, technical reports, organization charts and other corporate records, patent applications, blueprints, company brochures, product documentation, photographs, and transcripts or recordings of speeches and interviews..