去年底,联合国教科文组织派专家阿克顿女士来我国为档案部门应用计算机进行咨询。她在沈阳谈过一段意味深长的话。在分析加拿大和其它国家的档案部门应用计算机比其它社会部门缓慢的原因时,她说:档案是过去历史的东西,有传统的作法,所以当计算机出现的时候,档案工作者的思维就落后了。这番话使我想起身边的情景。我有一位朋友,是个老档案工作者,某档案馆领导人,热爱档案事业,工作勤勤恳恳,可是对新知与新事却显得冷漠和裹足。他那个馆的馆库、人员、经费等问题都已解决,馆藏丰富,他雇请一批临时人员,将用较长时间进行手工 At the end of last year, UNESCO sent Ms. Acton to China to consult the archives department on computers. She had a meaningful conversation in Shenyang. In analyzing the slow adoption of computers in archival offices in Canada and other countries over other social sectors, she said: Archives are something of the past and traditionally there is a lag in the thinking of archivists when computers appear . These words remind me of the scene around me. I have a friend, an old archivist, an archivist, an archivist who works hard and diligently, but appears indifferent and bound to new knowledge and new things. His library library, staff, funding and other issues have been resolved, the collection is rich, he hired a number of temporary staff, will be a longer period of manual