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This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.Anyone who has recently attended the meetings of national or regional archival associations or who has followed the professional literature is aware that the last decade has seen a marked change in the nature of the archival profession. Not only have more and more people become archivists, but they have come to their work from a wider variety of backgrounds and with an increasing level of formal professional education and training. Even more significant, they find themselves working in a wider variety of archives, as institutions and organizations have established archival programs where none had previously existed.