Introduction / Sydel Silverman
The National Anthropological Archives / Mary Elizabeth Ruwell
Discipline history centers in the sciences / Joan Warnow-Blewett
The Melanesian Archive / Donald Tuzin
Preserving the archaeological record / Don D. Fowler and Douglas R. Givens
The records of applied anthropology / John van Willigen
The role of museums in preserving the anthropological record / Thomas H. Wilson and Nancy J. Parezo
Saving the past for the future: guidelines for anthropologists / Nancy J. Parezo, Nathalie F.S. Woodbury, and Ruth J. Person
The physical preservation of anthropological records / Mary Elizabeth Ruwell
The potentials and problems of computers / Robert V. Kemper
The future uses of the anthropological record / Shepard Krech III and William C. Sturtevant
The next steps / Sydel Silverman and Nancy J. Parezo.