Anheuser-Busch's corporate archives and library

The impending end of Anheuser-Busch as an independent company raises questions about its corporate archives and library. I think that Anheuser-Busch has employed a corporate historian. Beer historians know that the Pabst archives, consulted by Thomas Cochran in the 1940s, no longer exist, likely a consequence of the disappearance of the brewery company. (In my own research on drink trade lobbies in England I consulted records for organizations that no longer exist. In some cases the records were transferred to academic libraries and in other cases apparently were discarded. Maybe my illegible notes are worth something!) I hope that beer historians with influence at St. Louis ask the powers that be to deposit the archives and library at a university or historical society, if InBev isn't willing to commit itself to their long term preservation. The crisis may also be an opportunity. To the best of my knowledge, the only historian allowed access to the archives (Ronald Jan Plavchan) did so as part of dissertation research in the 1960s. Maureen Ogle was permitted access only to the library. Maybe now Anheuser-Busch will care less about saving its secrets. Ironically, virtually every organization looks better in its records than in writings by outsiders.