On completion of advanced training courses for employees of archives and documentation support services of government bodies and other organizations

Advanced training courses are organized by the Department of Archives and Records Management of the Ministry of Justice together with the Faculty of History of the Belarusian State University on the basis of the Faculty of Advanced Training and Retraining of the Belarusian State University.

The lectures were given by teachers of the Belarusian State University, senior officials of the Department of Archives and Records Management, and highly qualified specialists from republican archival institutions.

From the archival industry, lectures were given by RYBAKOV A.E., director of the institution «Belarusian Research Institute of Document Management and Archival Affairs», candidate of historical sciences, associate professor, ZHUK O.Yu., head of the department of methodology for managing electronic documents of the Belarusian Scientific Research Center for Electronic documentation, SHEVCHENKO T.A., head of the department of records management and formation of the National Archive of the Republic of Belarus.

October 17, 2023 First Deputy Director of the Department of Archives and Records Management O.A. LEDOVSKAYA a round table «Modern challenges and opportunities in the field of document management and archiving» was held. At the round table, topical issues of the activities of archives and documentation support services of organizations at the present stage were discussed: organizing work with electronic documents, ensuring information security, increasing the availability of archival information, and retraining personnel.

As part of the courses, 21 employees of government bodies and organizations and state archives were trained.

The lesson program had a relevant topic and covered the following issues:

– organizing the work of the organization’s archive and management documentation support service;
– regulatory legal acts of the Republic of Belarus and guarantees of the right to information;
– legal problems of information security and responsibility in law;
– regulatory legal, methodological documents in the field of activity of the documentation support service for management and archives of the organization;
– electronic document management systems;
– enterprise content management solutions;
– ensuring archival storage of electronic documents of government bodies and other organizations;
– current trends in the development of information retrieval systems for archival documents.

At the end of the advanced training courses, a debriefing took place with the presentation of certificates of advanced training of the established form to the students.

Work to improve the qualifications of employees of government bodies and organizations will continue in 2024.