Archives can ensure that the true memory of the execution of these missions is kept and return it to future administrators and academics for their reference and guidance in making decisions in the future. In this we are no different from any other Archive. However, we can never underestimate the role of good education to a country's future and providing a solid basis for decision making about that education is worth preserving. Perhaps just as important is the historical and social colour that a good archive can add to a University. We record the University in its moments of celebration and tragedy.
Archives give life to the past and hope for the future.
With the arrival of FOI, we have the potential to become the keeper of not only the corporate memory but also the corporate conscience. There is a new awareness that what is recorded in records and archives does have legal weight and perhaps significant consequences many years later. I believe UWA has gone through a re-evaluation of its attitudes towards archives and records, and their keepers, and has developed a ,much healthier and more positive attitude towards both. Future projections Archives and Central Records as a section has reached something of a cusp in its history. We are about to enter the brave new world of electronic records.