A625Field Historian Course ELO: Apply Document Gathering and Archiving Techniques

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A625-Field Historian CourseELO Apply Document
Gathering and Archiving Techniques

• In our time preservation is still a very big
  problem!
• What does it take?
• Effective Management
• Keen Historical Sense
• Record managers continue to devise standards to
  direct the disposition of historical files.
• Record managers often do not see value nor
  appreciate the Historical value to data.

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A625-Field Historian CourseELO Apply Document
Gathering and Archiving Techniques
Vietnam- Many records from units assigned in
combat zones made it back to the states however,
many remain to be screened, evaluated,
reorganized and deposition.
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A625-Field Historian CourseELO Apply Document
Gathering and Archiving Techniques
Basic Rule If records constitute the data upon
which important decisions were made or illustrate
the decision making process archive it!
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A625-Field Historian CourseELO Apply Document
Gathering and Archiving Techniques
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A625-Field Historian CourseELO Apply Document
Gathering and Archiving Techniques