Information Management Implications:

The assembly, integration, synthesis, and dissemination of the
information essential to coherently and sensitively managing our
natural and cultural heritage is the chosen obligation of
preservation professionals.  Contemporary information management
technologies can facilitate the interdisciplinary dialogue
necessary for cooperative efforts in resource protection,
planning, and management.  By their active leadership and
initiative, professionals can use these same information
management tools to inform and include the public in the decision
process.  This act of consultation and inclusion, can gradually
instill in the public (restore in the public) the will to take
action to protect and defend its cultural heritage.  

The ultimate key to successful CRM is the selection and
application of appropriate preservation technologies throughout
the preservation process.  William Penn Mott, Jr., former
Director of the National Park Service, has asserted that these
preservation efforts will not only ensure the stability and
continuity of the knowledge base of contemporary society, but
will help us "understand the fundamental relationships of men to
each other and of men living in communities to their environment
as a whole" (National Park Service Position Paper, 2/10/86).

<bfile21>   Information Management Prerequisites
<bfile23>   Education Objectives
<ffile18>   Archaic CRM Methods