Editorial [2021]

Abstract

Kia ora koutou and welcome to the 2021 issue of Archifacts.

My name is Linda Liddicoat and I have taken the editor role over from the very capable Katrina Tamaira, whose improvements to processes have done much to make the role easier, though it was still a challenge. My interest in archives is purely personal, valuing the past they preserve. I have worked in council information management and education administration. Information management seems increasingly about managing data and volumes of documents and records and the disposal of this, whereas the attraction of archives for me is the social, economic and community history they contain and give access to, and the knowledge, intricacies and interconnections there is to discover within the broad range of collections there are.