1. Retrieving all relevant files in time. Colleagues can have problems understanding which bit of 'all' means 'all', as in 'please locate and notify me of all files that you hold that refer to.....', and can find it hard to grasp the notion that 'I don't have time' is not an option.
2. Reading files (archivists and historians are quite good at estimating how much work is going to be involved in reading a file by looking at it, but other people get an awful shock)
3. Copying, redacting and copying redacted versions. Not even interesting work.
Deirdre Sharp
Norfolk County Council
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Sent: 28 April 2005 16:06
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Subject: FOI-3 Major Practical Issues
APLOOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING.
Dear All,
For those of you now working under FOI regimes, what do you consider are
the 3 major practical issues the introduction of FOI has raised for you?
(As you may have noticed in RMS and elsewhere, we are considering whether
to follow suit).
Regards,
Brian
Brian Roberts
Archive Officer
Public Record Office
Unit 40A Spring Valley Industrial Estate
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