长期来,档案部门形成一个惯例,“管档案者必定是党员”,“党员”成了选拔档案干部的首要条件。在当今改革的年代,这个惯例确有必要破一下。档案工作者的条件是与档案工作的性质密切相关的,过去在左的思潮影响下,档案工作主要为政治斗争服务。当时,档案工作的政治性、机要性被强调到不适当的程度,由此,管档案者自然先看其政治身份。随着党的工作重点转移,档案工作的中心也转移到为经济建设服务上来。现在档案工作的性质可以全面概括为管理性、服务性、政治性,其中重点应在管理性,即通过科学管理,促进档案的 In the long run, the archival departments have formed a common practice that “archivists must be party members,” and “party members” have become the primary condition for selecting cadres of archives. In the days of today’s reforms, it is indeed necessary to break this convention. The conditions for archivists are closely related to the nature of archival work. In the past, under the influence of the leftist ideology, archival work mainly served political struggles. At that time, the political and opportunistic nature of archival work was emphasized to an undue degree, and as a result, the archivists naturally saw their political status first. With the shift of the party’s work, the center of archival work has also shifted to serving the economic construction. Now the nature of archival work can be comprehensively summarized as managerial, service, political, which should focus on management, that is, through scientific management, to promote the file