Personnel need to grow

As part of the ongoing work on professional orientation and strengthening of human resources, on November 22, a meeting was held at the state institution «Central Laboratory for the Preservation of Documents of the National Archival Fund of the Republic of Belarus» with first-year students of the Faculty of History of the Belarusian State University, who receive education in the specialty «Historical and Archival Studies».

During the meeting, the laboratory staff introduced the future archivist historians, headed by the curator of the practice, Candidate of Historical Sciences A.M. Belyavsky. with all stages of the technological process of microbiological examinations, disinfection, restoration, binding and digitization of archival documents.

Of particular interest was a visual demonstration of the process of restoration of an archival document with the replacement of the destroyed part of the sheet. The students were convinced that the restoration of the original form of an archival document requires a painstaking and scrupulous attitude, great experience and responsibility of unique specialists working in the laboratory. In addition, some of the students present showed a genuine interest in the possibility of completing an internship on the basis of the laboratory with possible subsequent employment.