His work supervising archival studies students helped craft a whole new generation of archivists who themselves have gone on to make important contributions to the field.
[2] In 1973 he left the world of secondary education to become an archivist working in the Manuscripts and Government Records Division at the Provincial Archives of British Columbia.
The Working Group was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to study and report on the development of standards for the description and indexing of archival material to improve scholarly access.
The Committee was responsible for producing the Rules for Archival Description, finalized in 1996, which constitute a bilingual national standard in Canada.
The latter was a particularly vigorous fight; many archivists who had library or history degrees and who had on-the-job training opposed the increased emphasis on dedicated masters level archival education.
Through his writings, consultations, and international teaching, Eastwood advocated for the improvement of the development of archival education in universities the world over.