13th EURASICA сonference, сonsultative сouncil of heads of CIS archival services, 3-7 October, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
The 13th General Conference of the Eurasian Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives (EURASICA) and a regular session of the Consultative Council of the heads of the state archival services of the CIS member countries took place on 3-7 October 2012 in Tashkent, the Republic of Uzbekistan.
The events brought together archivists from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Moldova, Russia, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, and Poland as an observer state.
Participants from the Belarusian side were the director at the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Justice Ministry of the Republic of Belarus V. Adamushko (head of the delegation), director at the Belarusian Research Center of Electronic Records (BelNITsED) V. Nosevich, the acting director at the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus (NARB) N. Rudakovsky, director at the Belarusian Research Institute of Records and Archival Studies (BelNIIDAD) A. Rubakov, director at the National Historical Archives of Belarus (NIAB) D. Yatsevich.
At the regular session of the Consultative Council of the heads of the CIS archival services the representatives of all member countries made reports on the development of archive business in the past year. The decision was made to prepare within a year and to submit to the Federal Archival Agency of Russia the data needed for the compilation of the unified database directory on the locations of personnel records in the CIS member states. V. Adamushko, director at the Belarusian Department for Archives and RM was elected chairman of the Consultative Council for the next year.
The 13th General EURASICA conference discussed the implementation of the action plan of the regional division in 2008-2012 and the action plan for 2013-1016, discussed the results of the 17th International Congress on Archives, other issues. A new executive bureau of the regional division was elected. A. Virabyan, director at the National Archives of Armenia was elected chairman of the EURASICA Executive Bureau. V. Adamushko, director at the Belarusian Department for Archives and RM was elected deputy chairman.
The next, 14th General EURASICA Conference will take place in 2013 in Bishkek, Uzbekistan.
The event included an international scholarly conference on the Current Issues of Acquisition, Registration, Preservation and Use of Information Resources in Archival Institutions. The Belarusian side made reports on “Information technologies in Belarusian archives” (by V. Nosevich, BelNITsED director), “The acquisition of records on new media at Belarusian archives: state, problems, perspectives” (by A. Rybakov, BelNIIDAD director), “The documentary heritage of the Republic of Belarus and the adjacent states at the National Historical Archives of Belarus” (by D. Yatsevich, NIAB director).