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

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