This archives policy recognizes the unique role that the Archives institution can play in managing current records and in the selection of historical archives for the preservation of this country’s corporate memory. It encompasses all official Government records in all formats including- traditional, audiovisual, maps and plans and digital records. It also acknowledges the crucial need to foster close links with museums and libraries. It esteems the effectiveness, economy and efficiency an archives and records policy can bring specifically to government administration and to national life generally. It also encourages private persons and institutions with substantial archives to adopt a similar approach to that set out here.