Hi Karla Archivists work with whatever materials their repositories collect. The archives I work at has paper documents, artifacts, audio/visual materials, scrapbooks, published books, etc. When you obtain an archival job you may only deal with paper records. The golden rule of the archival/museum/whatever field is that every repository is different. They all have the same goal: collecting, preserving, interpreting, and making available materials for research, and they all follow basic archival theoretical principles, but the way they put these principles into daily practice is entirely up to them. Martin ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).