In writing here and at my blogs, I've pointed to competing elements that
surround record keeping, records management and archives.   Very often,
creators of records read about access issues in the news or when subpoenas
are issued for records or organizational officials receive public records
requests.

Historians are not always the first people considered, when creators of
records assess the risk of writing something down, preserving a record in
an electronic record keeping system, or supporting its designation as
having permanent value. This is understandable. More often, they hear about
statutory requirements as they affect e-discovery more so than
institutional memory.

With that in mind, I've looked at records, inquiry and access in the
context of a senior executive in Federal service, who once told me decades
ago that he was so over scheduled, he yearned for down time to just sit and
think things through.
https://archivalexplorations.wordpress.com/2017/05/21/the-ones-who-know/
 My earliest archival duties centered on preservation of and access to
presidential records and included working with White House officials.

I later moved on to work with other records but the lessons from my early
years stayed with me.  So my blog post also looks at the impact of access
to national security classified records and other non-public information,
but in a very different way than Daniel Ellsberg (whom I quote) did, when
he once described the impact of authorized access.

Maarja
@ArchivesMaarja
Blog:  https://archivalexplorations.wordpress.com/
Washington, DC

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