档案是一种信息资源,是国家信息资源的重要组成部分,它用文字、图表、声像的形式记录在一定载体上,是固定的信息,能使历史原貌重现,为人们提供依据性、凭证性的信息,其数量浩瀚,内容丰富,与人们的各项社会实践与日俱增,是取之不尽,用之不竭的信息源泉。档案信息资源是一种潜在的生产力,一经开发利用,就能产生巨大的作用,转化为现实生产力。 Archives is an information resource and an important part of a country’s information resources. It is recorded on a certain carrier in the form of words, diagrams and audiovisuals. It is a fixed message that enables the original appearance of history to be reproduced and provides basis for people. Evidence of information, its vast number, rich in content, and people’s social practice is growing, is inexhaustible source of information. File information resources is a potential productivity, once developed, can have a tremendous effect, into real productivity.