New technology has always been and certainly is today a key factor in the evolution of information. The emergence of archival science as an autonomous discipline and its integration into the wider field of information science is in many ways a result of recent technological developments. In this paper we present in summary a part of a survey carried out on a sample of Greek students (including students of library and archival science) that aimed to map and clarify perceptions of the archive among the students as well as their understanding on the nature of archival science.