Press conference on the Development of Archive Business in the Republic of Belarus dedicated to the Day of Archivist

On 2 October 2013 the National Press Center of the Republic of Belarus held a press conference on the topic of the Development of Archive Business in the Republic of Belarus dedicated to the Day of Archivist.

Attendees at the press conference included the director of the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Justice Ministry V.I. Adamushko, the acting director of the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus N.K. Rudakovsky and director at the Belarusian State Archives of Photographs, Films and Sound Recordings V.V. Balandin.

The participants reported on the issues of the general condition of archive business in Belarus, told of the composition and contents of records held at the state archives, touched upon different aspects of the creation and preservation of digital copies for documents included in the National Archival Holdings of the Republic of Belarus. A special attention was paid to the introduction of modern information technologies into the activities of the state archive institutions in our country.

The mass media representatives were interested in the issues of search tools for individual archive records, the procedure of creating personal fonds at the state archives, access to records and other issues in the area of archives in the Republic of Belarus.