Lesson One: Introduction to Archives and Archivists
 

Lesson Overview This lesson is designed to: Provide you definitions of records and historical records ... Understand why some records are of permanent value--that is, are historical records ... Provide you with some examples of how people use historical records ... Allow you to explore the nature of historical records you might be producing in a 24-hour period of your life

This lesson will take about 20 minutes to complete. Allow another 20 minutes for the exercise at the end.