About the cover: Issues about the management of electronic records continue to vex both archivists and records managers. This cartoon appeared in the September 4, 1995, issue o/Federal Computer Week accompanying an editorial about the recent National Archives' electronic mail regulations and the apparent lack of e-mail management systems that would allow agencies not to have to print out electronic mail messages. This issue of the American Archivist carries several essays concerning the

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... es of managing electronic mail. (Illustration courtesy of Richard Tennant) .The. American Archivist Volume 58 / Number 1 Forum / 4 Toward a Usable Archival Past: Recent Studies in the History of Literacy (Works reviewed: Michael T. Clanchy, From Memory to Written Record: England, 1066-1307; Brian Stock, The Implications of Literacy: Written Language and Models of Interpretation in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries; Rosamund McKitterick, The Carolingians and the Written Word; Rosamund McKitterick, ed., The Uses of Literacy in Early Medieval Europe; Rosalind Thomas, Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece; and William V. Harris, Ancient Literacy) / 86