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Where Have all the Electronic Record Gone?



The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), has launched a
study called GAPS, to help it understand why regularly scheduled permanent
records from Federal Agencies, which had routinely come to NARA in the
past, are no longer being sent, or have arrived incomplete, or in much
smaller quantities, or in only partially filled boxes.  The problem effects
both textual (paper) as well as audio visual records (photo and film).
 This is all true.
Since not all Archives have been hit by fires of floods, it is expected
that the excuse "Oh, those records originated in electronic form and were
probably not printed out," will find universal application in almost any
archive with records originating from the mid 1980's.
On the positive side, the saving realized from not having to construct more
archive space for all that paper, will be used for travel expense to study
the problem.
Eddie Becker   ebecker@cni.org

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