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作者的话：本文基于我个人经历而作。原先我是一名档案工作者，现在我是一名行政官员。７０年代末，我开始从事档案工作的时候，档案工作并不是通常意义上的行政工作，而是一个让人感到非常神秘的部门。那些年，档案工作者被认为是埋首于各种档案中，履行其重要职责———为历史研究和后代收集、保管档案与文件。然而，随着时代的发展，人们对于信息的需求改变了这一认识，行政官员们开始认识到档案工作者决不仅仅是保管者，而是为决策者提供信息的重要工作人员。１９９２年国际档案大会的主题是“新信息时代档案工作者的作用”，这次大会讨论了重新认识档案工作者角色的问题。对于我们博兹瓦那的档案工作者而言，这种新观念出现于１９８２年，当时政府决定将现行文件的管理与档案管理合为一体。这意味着国家档案馆对各行政机关所形成档案的保管和管理将起决定性作用。国家档案馆为体现这一新的职责，于１９８５年改组并更名为国家档案与文件服务中心。这在当时许多人还在好奇档案馆究竟是干什么的情况下，应该说是一个突破。随着一个新的服务中心计划的出台，１９９２年，合并改组方案正式执行。实际上，当时大多数人都还没有意识到档案工作者在提供信息方面起着重要的作用，档案工作者提供的信息可以?
Authors’ words: This article is based on my personal experience. Originally, I was an archivist, and now I am an administrative officer. At the end of the 1970s, when I started to work on archives, the archives work was not the administrative work in the usual sense but an extremely mysterious department. In those years, archivists were thought to be buried in various archives and perform their important duties - to collect and keep archives and documents for historical research and future generations. However, with the development of the times, people’s need for information has changed this understanding. Administrative officials are beginning to realize that archivists are by no means custodians, but rather important workers who provide information to decision-makers. The theme of the 1992 International Archives Conference was “The Role of Archivists in the New Information Age”, which discussed the issue of re-understanding the role of archivists. For our file workers in Botswana, this new concept emerged in 1982 when the government decided to integrate the management of existing documents with the management of archives. This means that the National Archives will play a decisive role in the custody and administration of archives formed by various administrative organs. In order to embody this new responsibility, the National Archives was reorganized in 1985 and renamed as the National Archives and Documentation Service Center. This was a breakthrough at a time when many people were still wondering what exactly the archives was doing. With the introduction of a new service center plan, in 1992, the merger and reorganization plan was officially implemented. In fact, at that time, most people did not realize that archivists played an important role in providing information. What information could archivists provide?