The article deals with valorisation development of different kinds of records from the
field of economy in Slovenia from the middle of the fifties on. The emphasis is given
on the period after 1980. when the so-called positive way of valorisation and weeding
of archives out of records on the basis of archivistic principles and criteria, as well as
with the help of instructions for archives weeding madeitself valued. In the second
part of the article the emphasis is given on vaqloriation of documents which can be
read by means of a machine.