Part 1 The historian in the electronic age: R.J. Morris, electronic documents and the history of the late-20th century black holes or warehouses - what do historians really want?; Ronald Zweig, beyond content - electronic fingerprints and the use of documents; Daniel I. Greenstein, electronic information resources and historians - a consumer's view; Martin Campbell-Kelly, information in the business enterprise; Tatyana Moiseenko, Russian records - an archive system under pressure in the information age. Part 2 Information creation and capture: Seamus Ross, the expanding world of electronic information and the past's future; Helen Simpson, the management of electronic information resources in a corporate environment; Edward Higgs, historians, archivists, and electronic record keeping in U.K. government; Jean Samuel, electronic mail - information systems exchange of information loss; Martin Gardner, secondary use of computerized patient records - opportunities and problems. Part 3 Preservation and dissemination - theory: Kevin Schurer, information technology and the implications for the study of history in the future; W. Boyd Rayward - electronic information and the functional integration of libraries, museums, and archives; Denise Lievesley - increasing the value of data; Jeffrey D. Morelli, defining electronic records - problems of terminology; Edward Higgs, management, freedom, and history - the role of tomorrow's electronic archives. Part 4 The practice of preservation from the European perspective: Michael Wettengel, German unification and electronic records - the example of the "Kaderdatenspeicher"; the British Library and the challenge of electronic media - a view from the perspective of special collections, Alice Prochaska; Doron Swade, collecting software - preserving information in an object-centred culture; Lynne Brindley, research library directions in the 1990s; Hans-Jorgen Marker, data conservation at a traditional data archive; Peter Doorn, electronic records and historians - the case of the Netherlands; Claes Granstrom, Swedish society and electronic data; Hans Hofman, European developments - towards a united but distributed archives of Europe?
