Industry committee  Thank you for having us.

Industry committee  I am one of those as well.

Industry committee  As long as we don't become relics.

Industry committee  Do you mean that we should just go ahead and circumvent?

Industry committee  How many archivists do you know who are really daring and willing to break the law?

Industry committee  Yes, maybe. We do risk management, for sure, and there are some instances when an archivist just quite honestly can't let the thing go.

Industry committee  It's just ridiculous, and the chances of you actually being taken to court over this are very low. But we shouldn't be in that position. We really shouldn't be put in that position. We're allowed to do it under the provisions of the law. Why can't we just have an exception for ci

Industry committee  We want to get it out there.

Industry committee  Digitizing the materials in the first place is an issue. We won't digitize material. You can't mine material that hasn't been digitized—

Industry committee  —unless you're doing it by hand, with index cards, which is the old way of doing it. We cannot think about digitizing materials unless we can actually make them accessible on our website. That's the kind of materials we actually digitize. Before we even get to the point of dat

Industry committee  Do you mean our materials?

Industry committee  I would say less than 5%.

Industry committee  It's very little. We have masses of material.

Industry committee  We're working at digitizing materials, but archives don't have a lot of money.

Industry committee  It could be a family doing a family history. I'll pull an example totally out of my head. Let's say the family of a chaplain in a prison received a letter from the head of that prison because that chaplain was killed during a prison riot in the 1800s. Well, that letter is still u