2017 Volume 27 Pages 73-87
In the 2000s, countries leading in Archival Science in Europe, America, etc. have reformed archival profession by introducing development programs such as competency-based training according to research on tasks, competencies, and knowledge. Especially in Australia, an archivist proposed the necessity of relating education, training, and the other opportunities to enhance learning effectiveness, and therefore, in 2006, two professional societies jointly enhanced the development of professionals by releasing a statement on the knowledge, concepts, and policy for developing the profession and in 2010, a guide for tasks, competencies, and salaries for the classified professionals. In the United States of America, the Society of American Archivists
（SAA）released the Guidelines for a Graduate Program in Archival Studies in 2002 and changed it subsequently to give priority to knowledge of archival materials and functions, including Records and Information Management and Digital Material Management, till 2016. However, the U. S. Office of Personnel Management（OPM）, which catrgorized archivists under the Occupational Classification and released the Position Classification Standard for Archivist Series: GS-1420 first in 1965, recognized Archival Science in 2000s as an essential requirement for the Series in association with the Society. In conclusion, the approaches of both countries were different, but they enhanced human resource development in the field of records and archives profession by highlighting the nature of archives and the core knowledge of Archival Science through research on the tasks and competencies. Another is that Japanese associations and agencies relating to records and archives should jointly and strategically implement professional human resource development of archives based on tasks and competencies, as advised.
