diff --git a/commons/src/main/java/org/archive/io/ArchiveReader.java b/commons/src/main/java/org/archive/io/ArchiveReader.java
index 080b61f1..fe13d369 100644
--- a/commons/src/main/java/org/archive/io/ArchiveReader.java
+++ b/commons/src/main/java/org/archive/io/ArchiveReader.java
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ package org.archive.io;
 
 import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
 import java.io.BufferedWriter;
+import java.io.Closeable;
 import java.io.EOFException;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.logging.Level;
 import java.util.logging.Logger;
+
 import org.apache.commons.cli.Option;
 import org.apache.commons.cli.Options;
 import org.archive.util.MimetypeUtils;
@@ -45,7 +47,7 @@ import com.google.common.io.CountingInputStream;
  * @author stack
  * @version $Date$ $Version$
  */
-public abstract class ArchiveReader implements ArchiveFileConstants, Iterable<ArchiveRecord> {    
+public abstract class ArchiveReader implements ArchiveFileConstants, Iterable<ArchiveRecord>, Closeable {    
     /**
      * Is this Archive file compressed?
      */
@@ -347,9 +349,9 @@ public abstract class ArchiveReader implements ArchiveFileConstants, Iterable<Ar
 		return this.currentRecord;
 	}
 
-	protected ArchiveRecord currentRecord(final ArchiveRecord currentRecord) {
-		this.currentRecord = currentRecord;
-        return currentRecord;
+	protected ArchiveRecord currentRecord(final ArchiveRecord r) {
+		this.currentRecord = r;
+        return r;
 	}
 
 	protected InputStream getIn() {