《档案学通讯》86年第5期上刊登了郝晓峰同志的《档案价值探讨》一文(以下简称郝文),对作者的观点我基本赞同。现在仅就文中未论及的有关档案价值、使用价值的几个问题作点补充,以求教于档案界同志。一、档案的价值形成和价值特点马克思的劳动价值论能够应用于档案部门,是由档案部门非物质的生产劳动性质决定的。档案的加工过程,就是劳动的过程。档案劳动有它自己的一系列特征。第一,档案劳动没有很强的商业目的;第二、档案劳动具有很强的探索性和艰苦性;第三,由于档案部门的工作重点不同,所以档案劳动过程中的联系是相对松散的。档案工作者劳动的物化成果(还有一种成果表现为活劳动,可称之为档案劳务)经常处于两种不同的状态:一是静止状态,这种静止是相对静止。在文件材料转化为档案的过程中,包含了文书人员和档案工作者的劳动,这些劳动凝结在系统化的档案之中,形成了档案的价值,由于档案的相对静 The fifth issue of Archives Newspaper 86 published a paper entitled “Discussion on the Value of Files” by Comrade Hao Xiaofeng (hereinafter referred to as Hao Wen), and I basically agree with the author’s point of view. At present, only some issues concerning the value of archives and the value of use that are not mentioned in the text are supplemented in order to seek advice from comrades in the archives. First, the value of the formation of the file and value characteristics Marx’s labor theory of value can be applied to the file department, is determined by the non-material nature of the file department of labor. File processing, is the process of labor. Archival labor has its own set of characteristics. First, there is no strong commercial purpose for archival labor; second, archival labor is highly exploratory and painful; thirdly, the links in archival labor are relatively loose due to the different priorities of archival departments. The physicochemical achievements of archivists’ labor (and another kind of achievement manifested as living labor, which can be called archives labor) are often in two different states: one is quiescence, and the rest is relatively static. In the process of converting documents and materials into archives, the work of clerical staffs and archivists is included. These works are condensed into systematic archives and form the value of archives. Due to the relatively static nature of archives,