Procedural guidelines on Ensuring Optimum Conditions for Storage of Paper Records of the National Archival Holdings

The Belarusian Research Institute of Records Management and Archival Science (BelNIIDAD) issued the procedural recommendations on Ensuring Optimum Conditions for Storage of Paper Records of the National Archival Holdings of the Republic of Belarus.

The recommendations describe the requirements for archive buildings and facilities and the storage of records on paper media. They also dwell on the issues of records preservation during their storage, transferrence, usage and transportation.

The guidelines are intended for institution heads, archivists, workers in museums and libraries which hold manuscript collections, builders.

The Belarusian Research Institute of Records Management and Archival Science (BelNIIDAD) issued the Album of Forms of Organizational-Administrative Records with Commentaries (based on the unified record forms in the Unified Administrative Records System).

The Album offers examples for the formation of records based on the unified record forms included in the Unified Administrative Records System (USORD), adopted by order of the director at the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Justice Ministry of the Republic of Belarus of 14.05.2007 № 25.