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James Lambert's articles on religious archives in Archivarial have probably provoked more than one church archivist.If business and association archivists applied Lambert's recommendations to their settings, they too might be equally irritated.Lambert, who has left the employ of the Public Archives of Canada, offers only a personal, theoretical view, but I suspect that his views are held by most archivists.My reaction results from a serious concern that institutional archives are misunderstood, that their rights are not always acknowledged, and that they are seen as second-rate operations if they are considered at all.Canada's national archives justifiably pursues an acquisition strategy aimed at documenting more completely this country's history.The Public Archives of Canada has long attempted to ensure a record more complete than would simply the preservation of government records; no one can deny that this institution, the provincial archives and other public institutions such as university archives have rendered a great service in preserving and making available for research non-governmental records.However, these public institutions have at times encroached on the territory of institutional archives through unfair competition and by promising services they knew they could not provide.And these institutions have done little to encourage the establishment of church, labour, business, and association archives.The Public Archives of Canada recently announced the acquisition of the Canadian Council of Churches records.It would be unfair to say that the press release2 issued by the I James Lambert, "Public Archives and Religious Records: Marriage Proposals," Archivaria 1 (Winter 1975-76): 48-66; "But What is Caesar's and What is God's?Toward a Religious Archives Programme for the Public Archives of Canada," Archivaria 3 (Winter 1976-77): 40-56.
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