Publication: National archives" priorities: an international overview
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2021-07-15
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This discussion of national archives’ present priorities affords an overview of the areas meriting their greatest attention. It is based on an analysis of 18 strategic plans
and 41 vision statements found for the 159 national archives affiliated with the International
Council on Archives’ regional branches that provide public access to these
documents on their websites. Improvement in access to and conservation and digitisation
of the respective collections are convergent items in such plans and statements.
Other strategies including protection for the national heritage and collective
memory are also identified in some developing countries where the national archive
is the mainstay of cultural and intellectual life. Strengthening national archive
authority as the governing institution that guides a country’s archival policy, another
issue found in both plans and statements, infers the need to heighten archives’ social
and institutional role in their respective countries. The article identifies what is
deemed good practice in cultural institution transparency management by describing
what these institutions do and how. The scant presence of strategic plans on national
archives’ websites is regretted, however, for it deprives citizens of information on
the action planned for the years to come and precludes any international extrapolation
of the present findings.
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National archives, Strategy, Strategic plan, Vision statement, Transparency
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Martínez-Cardama, S., & Pacios, A. R. (2021). National archives’ priorities: an international overview. Archival Science, 22 (1), pp. 1-42.