Sorry, let me clarify what I meant to say:

We thought that digitizing paper records might be a bigger issue for
archives right now than managing records that are already electronic, since
(in our limited experience) most archives (other than perhaps corporate or
some government archives) have very few electronic records in their
collections.  In our opinions, at least, digitizing paper records can be
considered an electronic records issue.

Hope that makes a little more sense.

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Gerry McFatridge <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>
> I'm confused.
>
> Aren't electronic records by their very nature already digitized?
>
> Or am I just not hip to the lingo archivists use?
>
>
>
> Gerry
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Amber Forrester
> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 10:09 AM
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> Subject: Re: Question: Electronic Records Issues
>
> <snip>
>
> On the archival side of things, we thought that digitization might be
> more of an issue.  Archivists have an interest in making records
> available to a wider audience than just those who can visit the
> repository, so it is in their best interest to digitize as many records
> as possible.  Of course, once that is done they will face similar issues
> of preservation, migration, etc.
>
> <snip>
>
> --Amber
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