Historical Issues In Archives

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ABSTRACT
1.0INTRODUCTION

2.0 CURRENT ISSUES / CHALLENGES 2.1 Archives as constructed memory Archives are basically known as a place or building where permanent records are or may be stored. Those records are actually all being kept in memory in the archives. The memory usually known as separated parts such as personal memory, collective (social) memory, historical memory and archival memory. The aim of memory existence is to enable people searching for information from the past and claiming for evidence if any affair comes up in future. In this situation, archivists are playing important role as they do responsible managing records whether to preserve or give an access for certain collection of records. For personal memory …show more content…

It must be a challenge for them to overcome this matter in order to find solution since the technologies keep changing days by days. They have tested various of approaches on the records and as result, it has worked perfectly. However, there are still worrying in their thought which means the existence of such problems that will distract the accessibility towards records. These problems have been predicted earlier since from using manual to digital technologies. In previous era, archives professional do not still good in technologies and perform well in managing records in archives. For example, certain technologies such as computer is complex and needs expertise to get used with it. Since no expertise has been provided, the productivity of maintaining and preserving become slower and ineffective. As archives professional, they are responsible ensuring all kind of problems should be found its out way in order to maintain values of the records. As aware, archives are also a place that keeping of historic and cultural records and logically, there must be certain of records could not be read or access using latest technologies as the records are too aged.
3.0 RECOMMENDED SOLUTIONS
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3.3 The severance between archive and library in future.
Based on my reading, archive and library are different scope of jobs that just have a small portion of similarity. As solution, they should be separated since there will some issues appeared in future such as the different of understandings and experiences. Besides, the records in
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