ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF ARCHIVES
Archives are places where collection of public and private documents and old record are preserved.
These documents includes personal letters, early travelers, missionary records, traders writings, personal and government files, political parties documents, etc.
FUNCTIONS OF ARCHIVES
1. Archives preserve public and private records that have enduring value to the society.
2. The public makes the records in archives available for use. However not all records can be viewed by everyone.
3. Archives collect records of enduring value from various places. For example, the nation archives have records from different regions of the country.
4. The archives staff maintains registers of the record in the archives.
5. Archives have facilities for restoring damaged documents of enduring value.
6. Archives have facilities for restoring damaged documents of enduring value.
7. The historical information in the archives ensures continuity.
ADVANTAGES OF ARCHIVES
1. Easy to identify ideas and literacy level of the past man.
2. It is easy to identify the exact date of historical event.
3. It used to store historical information.
4. Easy to get historical information from different places and different people.
DISADVANTAGES OF ARCHIVES
1. It may lead false information, if author is biased.
2. Illiterate people cannot get historical information.
3. It is not easy to get information of society whose information is not documented.
4. It is difficult to get remote information from archives.
5. It is nonrenewable once disrupted either by wind.
