Records Management Technical Committee held its organizing meeting in Minsk on 18 May 2011
The Records Management Technical Committee held its organizing meeting in Minsk on 18 May 2011. Attending the meeting were representatives of the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Republic of Belarus, The National Bank of the Republic of Belarus, the Operational and Analytical Center under the aegis of the President of the Republic of Belarus, the Belarusian Research Center of Electronic Records, the Belarusian Research Institute of Records Management and Archival Studies (BelNIIDAD), the Belarusian State Archives of Scientific and Technical Documentation, the Belarusian State University, the Institute of Applied Software Systems, the Electronic Office Company, and the Belarusian Automobile Plant.
The participants discussed and approved the Draft Regulation of the Committee and a list of standards required for development. Authorized representatives of the organisations concerned with the Committee’s work adopted the Committee’s structure and membership. Andrei E. Rybakov, BelNIIDAD director was elected Chairman of Records Management Technical Committee. Natalia S. Maksimova, research assistant at BelNIIDAD documentation department was elected executive secretary.
The Records Management Technical Committee is intended to serve as a basis for cooperation between the government bodies, archival institutions and other interested organisations for work in the national, intergovernmental and international (regional) standardisation in the area of records management. In particular, the Committee has plans to review the State Standards of the Republic of Belarus and to adopt at national level a number of international standards in this sphere.
Interinstitutional cooperation within the framework of the Records Management Technical Committee is highly important for implementing a unified coordinated policy of standardisation in the field of records management and archival business in the country in line with current trends and international practices.