[1] In 1975 Charles M. Dollar hired Thibodeau to work in NARA's Machine Readable Archives Division.
[1] He joined a team that reviewed the electronic records of federal agencies to ensure they could be archived by NARA.
[1] He played a central role in developing the partnerships between several archival organizations and the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
[1] From 1998 to 2009 he was director of NARA's Electronic Records Archives Program, authorized by John W. Carlin, the archivist of the United States.
[5] Material to be archived ranges from simple text documents to complex multimedia web pages.
[9][10][a] He pointed out that archives have a unique responsibility to "preserve and deliver authentic records to subsequent generations of users.
What differentiates records from documentary materials in general is not their form, but their connection to the activities in which they are made and received.
In sober terms, unless we succeed in surmounting these challenges there will not be a National Archives of the United States for the digital era.