A workshop, Changes in Records Management Procedures in the Light of the New Instruction on Records Management in Government Institutions, 25 February 2010, Minsk

Published: February 08, 2010

A one-day workshop, Changes in Records Management Procedures in the Light of the New Instruction on Records Management in Government Institutions is to be held at the Belarusian Research Institute of Records Management and Archival Studies (BelNIIDAD), 25 February 2010 in Minsk.

The workshop is intended for employees at records management offices, personnel offices, legal departments, and agency archives.

The workshop addresses the following issues:

• legislative base in records management and archive business in the Republic of Belarus and the system of state control over legislation compliance in this sphere;

• changes in documenting government activities (requirements for local, normative and legal documents on records management, blank forms, records attributes and texts, formation of certain types of records etc.);

• recordkeeping in the light of the new Instruction (receipt, registration and execution of incoming and internal records, checkout procedures);

• types of file classification systems and procedures for their creation, confirmation and use in the light of the new Instruction;

• changes in files formation and records appraisal;

• new requirements for making inventories (file lists) in agency departments (for permanent, temporary (over 10 years) and personnel records);

• procedures for transfer of records to agency archives and disposal of temporary records;

• specifics of work with electronic records.

The seminars are given by V.I. Adamushko, director at the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Republic of Belarus; E.N. Davydova, head of the division of records management and the formation of the National Achival Holdings of the Republic of Belarus at this Department; A.E. Rybakov, director at BelNIIDAD; T.V. Stolina, chief state inspector for archives and records management, and other high experts in records management and archive business.