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Texas Historical Record Advisory Board - Reports - Too Lightly Esteemed in the Past - Texas State Library (10342 words) |
 | Records commonly are created to fill one need, and later are used to serve another, different, but equally compelling need, such as permitting a person to prove an entitlement or right, the value of which can hardly be measured in monetary terms. |
| To this day, several state agencies steadfastly hoard their archival records, often in conditions that are contributing to the early deterioration of the records, in one case near a steam boiler where high humidity aggravates the acidic condition of the paper and shortens the life of the leather bindings of the record books. |
| With archivists organized on a regional basis, records managers organized on a city basis, and preservation administrators not organized at all, coordination is nearly impossible, the resulting being that the communities as a unit are virtually invisible on the state level in Texas to specific constituencies, such as resource allocators and political leaders. |
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