Archives have existed since ancient times. According to James O'Toole (1990), the term "archives" was originally used to "designate all collections of written records" (p. 28). In the modern world, however, the word...
An archive refers to a collection of historical records, and also refers to the location in which these records are kept.[1] Archives are made up of records (AKA primary source documents) which have been accumulated over the course of an individual or...