Most court managers have been exposed to basic concepts of technology (e.g., computers, word precessing, microfilm, video recording, multitrack audio recording, and reproduction) at court seminars and conferences and through judicial journals and popular magazines. However, few possess firsthand technical knowledge or have readily available resources to understand and assess each technology fully. Court decisionmakers, therefore, need impartial and comprehensive information concerning technology in court administration. The manual identifies significant problems with existing court recordkeeping systems, suggests alternative manual and automated approaches to these problems, and indicates applications where manual and automated solutions are mutually exclusive or complementary. It also describes model approaches for integrating manual and automated system components and indexes some previous work in the area of court technology. As an initial resource, the report directs court managers to other reports containing detailed information on the appropriate solutions available to help solve their recordkeeping problems. Illustrations, tables, and an annotated bibliography are provided. (Author abstract modified)