October 2, 1998

U.S. Archivist Announces Plan for Preserving Electronic Documents

By DOUGLAS LEDERMAN

The Archivist of the United States, John W. Carlin, last week released a plan aimed at insuring that government records that are created electronically are preserved under the same standards that apply to paper documents. But Mr. Carlin acknowledged critics' complaints that the process would be slow, and some scholars warned that in the interim the delay could impede the nation's understanding of how

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