Abstract:

The utilization of the archives information resources in China, from the user' s perspective, possesses the following new characteristics: (1) in the aspect of user' s field, there is a tendency to socialization, using extensively government reference, scientific research, historiography and popular life; (2) in the aspect of achieves requirement, there is a tendency to threedimension, not only including archives research but also concerning about something practical, generic and leisure; (3) in the aspect of the using subject, there is a tendency to allroundness, that is, there are more and more individual and oversea users in addition to the Party and government organ and social organization; (4) in the aspect of the using object, there is a tendency to diversification, including the usage of both the historical achieves and the current achieves, even the open consultancy; (5) in the aspect of the utilization grounds, there is a tendency to legalization, a definite regulation being made about the principle and procedure of the achieves utilization, the form and purview of the achieves proclamation, and the right and obligation of the archives user; (6) in the mode of archives utilization, there is a tendency to scientificity, displaying a scientific utilization method, a true archives information and a diversity of the utilization access; (7) in the aspect of archives instrument, there is a tendency to modernization, which supplies the longrange archives utilization with such technological means as the digitalization of the archives office, the construction of informationization and archives websites. All these exhibit a process of stepbystep development. With the growing of the information age, economic construction and social evolution, the characteristics of archives utilization is sure to be greater diversified. Therefore, it is significant for making a good job of archives service to understand and exert the above new characteristics and governinglaws.

Key words: electronic age, archives usage, information resources