Meetings of work collectives held at central state archive institutions

On 21-28 December 2011, the republic-level state archive institutions held meetings of work collectives to summarize the results of work in the year 2011 and set up objectives for 2012. Attending the meetings were chiefs and division heads at the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Justice Ministry of the Republic of Belarus.

Participants at the meetings noted that all planned assignments in the main directions of archive activity have been fulfilled. In 2011 the central state archives and institutions performed the activities within the Archives of Belarus State Programme for 2011–2015, conducted intensive work on the security protection of archival fonds, strengthening of material, technical and resources basis in archives, the formation and acquisition of the National Archival Holdings of the Republic of Belarus. The important directions were, as before, the provision of information service to users, use of archival records, provision of information to government institutions and local self-government. The main directions of archive activities have been automatized, which makes possible a transfer to new, more effective methods of work.
At the same time there are many unsolved issues. Due to objective reasons, the reconstruction of a number of archive buildings have not been finished. The material and technical base of archives needs further development, etc. Belarusian archivists are expected to solve these tasks in the new year 2012.