Electronic records have a limited life expectancy, due to the inherent instability of their physical media and their rapidly-obsolescing technologies. An important aspect of electronic records management is security. Records are reliable as evidence only if it can be proven that they haven't been tampered with. Peter Van Garderen demonstrated several software packages which use encryption, passwords, digital date-stamping, and compartmentalization of information as security features. Although I didn't expect that the seminar would make me an instant expert on electronic records, it did provide some interesting and useful perspectives.
Electronic records are likely to become a more important aspect of an archivist's job in the future.
Managing them successfully will involve a combination of the technical expertise of IT people with the librarian-like skills of classification and subject analysis.