It is necessary to build the collecting policy to fit to each agency, to secure the collecting efficiency of permanent records, on establishing new domestic local records archives management agency. The necessities of collecting policy are shown to cl...
It is necessary to build the collecting policy to fit to each agency, to secure the collecting efficiency of permanent records, on establishing new domestic local records archives management agency. The necessities of collecting policy are shown to clarify the basic problems, indicating what the local records management archives agency, which functions and roles should be implemented by the agency during planing its establishment for the cities and provinces, following the records archives Acts, which has resulted in the necessity of the collecting police to be built with response to meet the local properties.
In this study, the local records management status of Hiroshima province public documents Archives in Japan, California state records archives in U. S. A. and Permanent records collecting status of Daejeon Metropolitan City has been referred to develop the policy of local records archives agent. With the basis of this, the collecting policies and guidelines has been proposed to differentiate permanent records and to be referred on newly establishing the local archives management agency.
Firstly, the types of documents to be appointed as permanent or semi-permanent records among the public records to be produced from the local governments has been suggested. 10 types of records has been indicated in this study, including important city policies and businesses, establishment of new institutes, revision, disposal, financial status, organization composition, public intention and progress, executive treatment and citizens’ rights, responsibilities, major research and statistics, events, accidents, disasters, executive data, and other documents,
As well as these, the concrete type of archives, which should be divided into permanent and semi-permanent, has been suggested for each types, and the cautious matters has been indicated on the records types, excluded from the collective objects, and being collected by archives researchers. Following this, the collecting procedures has been researched with dividing into planning phase, collecting conducting phase, and after-collect management phase to propose the collecting policy of local archives management agency. In addition, with the base of the previous studies of domestics and overseas, 5 articles, such as the collecting purpose and aim, collecting range and clarification, collecting priority and restrictions, collecting beneficiaries, and cooperating with other agencies, has been appointed, and the collecting policy with response to meet these articles.
In this study, the proposed collection policies and the collecting types of public documents could be exploited as data to promote the business efficiency on publishing the new local archives management agency. However, for the collecting policy, the procedures to add the detail articles or vary the components with considering the local properties of each local archives management agencies, as it has not been designed with considering the concrete agencies.