Department for Archives and Records Management held a board meeting, 27 September

On 27 September 2012 the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Justice Ministry of the Republic of Belarus held a board meeting to discuss the issues of the preparation for the autumn-winter period of 2012/2013 at the state archival institutions; on the work of the state archives in the use of archive records in the mass media and the information events; on the work aimed at the compliance of the normative legal acts in archives and records management with the Law of the Republic of Belarus on Archives and Records Management.

On the second issue it was noted that in the period from 2008 to the first half of 2012 the state archives of the Republic of Belarus prepared 2,216 publications in the mass media (916 by the republic-level archives and 1,210 by the regional and local archives) and carried out 1,838 information events (808 and 1,030 respectively).

In the activities of the state archives in the use of archive records in the mass media an emphasis was placed on an active use of the resources of the Internet global computer network.