Moving image archives collect, preserve, and provide access to films, television programs, and video works. This paper illustrates two archives in the United States where started preservation of moving images earlier than Japan did. It also seeks meeting points of moving image archives, archival studies and record management. CBS News Archive is a corporate archive which is not open to the public. It has a unique policy that requires the programs to be transferred into the archive 48 hours after they are broadcasted. In addition, it carefully preserves production records against possible risks of the programs to be sued. In contrast, UCLA Film and Television Archive is a non-profit, university-setting archive which is open to the public. "Separation of media" or scattering moving images and related materials in various libraries and archives on campus is a problem, however, it actively provides access as well as takes part in educating the next generation of moving image archivists.

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Recently, local government agencies in Japan are introducing electronic system for current document management. In such system, bibliographic information such as titles of official documents is produced and managed as electronic information. This article aims to examine efficient ways of managing historical documents and deciding disclosure of such documents based on electronic information concerning the official documents captured by archival institutions.

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As a research project of the Records Management Society of Japan, the authors interviewed the staff of 12 manufacturing companies in Japan. This interview aimed to indentify the current status and issues of records management in such companies, in terms of construction and application of records management rules, audit and training, records management tools, corporate culture, and so forth. As a result, the authors found out that there was plenty of room to improve basic issues such as definition of terms and construction of roles for records management. Top management of the companies holds the key to the improvement and needs to take leadership for records management. In addition, CIO (Chief Information Officer) have a role to support decision-making of the top management, by means of (1) managing company-wide databases of staff, products, technologies, finances, customers, markets, and so forth, (2) investigating compliance and internal control issues, and (3) coordinating cross-sectional business. This research project needs to widen research coverage and strategies in order to identify critical issues and make suggestions for improvement of companies.

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