ABSTRACT
The subject is huge, and only a few examples can be mentioned in the space allotted, but the implications are profound. Archivists will have to select some electronic records for preservation and others for destruction - as they now do routinely for paper records. The strategies we adopt to preserve electronic records, the choices we make as to what to keep, will shape the evidential base from which historians will construct the history of our generation. The final part of this chapter will give some practical recommendations.
