An Archivist's Challenges: Adapting to Changing Technology and Management Techniques

An Archivist's Challenges: Adapting to Changing Technology and Management Techniques Over twenty years ago, the National Archives of the United States embraced the concept that automated records were actually records which could be considered permanent within the meaning of the Federal Records Act and set about collecting them. Since then it has confronted problems incident to finding these automated records, acquiring them, preserving them and making them available to the public. Previous papers have discussed access to public automated records in the normal sense; that is, the ability of the researcher to get at them. In