When we first spoke in January, we could not have imagined the challenges that lay ahead, so I am grateful that you stuck with the project despite those challenges and produced such a helpful report. When I asked you to take the project on, I knew there was a lot for us to do. What we needed was an objective and professional external reviewer to make the points that you have made and to give us a plan for the future. The clarity in your report and that nascent plan will help me to make the case across the university that we should be doing better with our archive. It will be our guide going forward.
