Promoting Public Access To The Archive Case Study

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The purpose of this paper is a about the current issues/challenges and recommended solution problem of the promoting public access to the archive . Archival records of the government are publicly accessible and can be consulted for free. Sustained accessibility of paper and digital records is paramount.The factors have had an impact on the way in which the decision making process is documented and how this documentation is managed, lack of awareness, networking, Privacy concern, Non-traditional forms of Records, The Impact Of Technology, Democratization Of Archives, The Changing Nature Of Access And Use, Enhancing Awareness Of Archival Holdings, and other issues/challenges. The recommended solutions is a Managing the identification, appraisal, retention, preservation, and provision of support for the use of documents generated in electronic form, devoting greater resources to non-textual holdings, recognizing that records are global, Devising new methods for describing and providing user access to the ever-expanding volume of contemporary records in all formats and other recommended solutions. Promoting public access to the archives is are important to everyone because it can help people to know about archives and some of the innovations that has been
Since archives existed primarily to serve the legal needs of records creators, their use was limited to the bureaucracies that controlled them. The only exceptions were those countries influenced by democratic movements and in which access rules were somewhat relaxed. To this day, creators of records have remained an important user group in archives, as the collective memory of organizations is consulted for a variety of reasons from documenting past decisions to developing a sense of corporate