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In 1977, the Society of American Archivists (SAA), appointed the National Information Systems Task Force (NISTF) to examine the issues surrounding its decision about which national information system (automated or not) to support. The two most likely cand

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In 1977, the Society of American Archivists (SAA), appointed the National Information Systems Task Force (NISTF) to examine the issues surrounding its decision about which national information system (automated or not) to support. The two most likely candidates were NUCMC and the NHPRC's National Guide Project. NISTF extricated itself from these highly political questions by focusing its energies on creating the 'preconditions' for archival information exchange.

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