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    1. Jonathan Furner furtherclarifies that records are not evidence in and ofthemselves, but are defined by their potentiality; they arecapable of serving as evidence in support of claims aboutthe past by a wide range of users

      I thought this was a really interesting point, because as we discovered last week, meaning comes from the whole. The record on its own may have some personal value, but the records place in contributing to the whole picture is what makes it important to the archive. This is also where the question of where archives belong in terms of study; humanities? Social Science? It depends on how the record is serving as evidence, and to what purpose. Like Furner claims, they can be used for a wide range of users, and records may serve as different types of evidence to different people.