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Focuses on the specification that applications for archive posts should have a history degree as a requirement for jobs which will cover the whole spectrum of archival activity. Training in local repositories and limited instruction; Contributions of scholarly archivists; Benefits of personal experience of historical research to archivists; Need of all types of researchers.

Presents a brief survey of politicians' attitudes towards archives over the last centuries. Necessity to devise a method to keep records in offices; Monetary rewards for men who kept public records for preservation; Preserving records for scholarly, governmental and legal purposes.

This section presents abstracts of research and articles on economics, published in the December 1966 issue of the Journal of Economic Abstracts. The article Household Savings in Israel by R. Ablin examines the common supposition that the Israeli household or personal saving propensity is particularly low by American, British or Western European standards. Meanwhile, K. Ahooja describes the main features of the investment codes in African countries and analyses the describes the main features of the investment codes in African countries and analyses the relationships between economic planning and investment legislation during the recent period of transition in Africa in the paper Development legislation in Africa. Author K. D., in the article Law to Further Economic Stability, discusses certain implications and results of price controls in underdeveloped countries, chiefly in conditions where controls are more effective at one stage of distribution than at others. In the paper International Comparisons of Income Levels: A Suggested New Measure, authors Beckerman and Bacon survey some of the main uses to which international comparisons of real income can be put and difficulties of obtaining such comparisons for a large number of countries.

Comments on the articles by Rupert Jarvis and Edward Carson regarding medieval customs records system in London, England. Accounts entered in the enrolled customs accounts; Collection of customs duties; Types of information in the particular accounts which were kept at each customs port.