%0 Journal Article
%T Archivists - A Profession in Transition?
%A Maria Kallberg
%J Professions & Professionalism
%D 2012
%I Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences
%R 10.7577/pp.v2i1.158
%X E-government development has put pressure on public organizations to work with electronic information. Records from complex e-government services have to be captured and managed in order to be accessible both in the present and in the long term. The data and analysis presented is based on a multiple case study of nine Swedish local governments (municipalities) identified as good ex-amples of best practice of e-government. An analytical model for recordkeeping awareness in three arenas: the legal, the political and the workplace has been created in order to identify how political decisions and new technology impact on professional archivists¡¯ practice and status. The research findings demonstrate a gap between the legal and workplace arenas in both directions caused by lack of recordkeeping awareness primarily within the political arena. Archivists¡ä profes-sional status seems to be limited, which opens up possibilities for other profes-sional groups to replace them.
%U https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/pp/article/view/158