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Records and Archives for Public Good
code:
146
Jul 23
14:30 - 17:00
Speaker:
FU, Hua
KOZLOV, Vladimir
MIRONENKO, Sergei
TYURINA, Elena
WANG , Yanmin
YANG , Dongquan
Room:
Hall 1
Description
Language(s) of presentations:
Chinese
Other (please specify)
Russian
Simultaneous translation:
English
French
Chinese
Russian
Abstract:

In recent years, the State Archives Administration of China has put forward a new guiding policy, calling efforts throughout the country to establish an archival system, which will better the service for the people’s livelihood. The shift in the guiding policy is affecting directly archival documentation and access practices in China, giving more attention to common people and their interests.

The beginning of 1990th years was the critical period in the history of Russia, when significant changes in the state system, economic public life have occurred. These changes affected the archival service too, which became by that time a part of the system of executive authorities. Under the changed conditions it was necessary to solve main problem - to create a modern legal base for the archival service, to provide integration of archives of the CPSU into the system of the state archives of Russia, to arrange a mass declassification of records that the citizens have got access to the previously classified information. Right in that period happened the turn from the service to the state to the service to the people.

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Overall purpose and significance of session:
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Content description:

Six senior archivists from China and Russia will discuss the common interested issue of archive service for public good and share their experience and new initiatives in this aspect.

For China

  • Mr. YANG Dongquan, Director General of the State Archives Administration of China (SAAC) is going to give an introduction to the strategy of improving nation’s archive services for the people’s livelihood. The SAAC has asked for nationwide efforts to develop an archival resource system concerning the people’s livelihood and establish an easy access to archives system for common people, intending to transform the traditional mode that emphasize events but neglect people, emphasize great figures but neglect ordinary persons, emphasize access by agencies and organizations but neglect access by individuals, emphasize service for agencies and organizations but neglect service for public.
  • Mr. FU Hua, vice editor-in-chief of China Archives News, will focus on various ways of promoting people-oriented service in archival institutions of all types and at various levels, highlighting some initiatives and good experience.
  • The third speaker Mr. WANG Yanmin, Deputy Director of SAAC’s Supervision Department of Economic and Technological Archives, will give an example about documentation and archival work of a water project for the welfare of people and efficiency of governance. He will detail archival documentation of the migrants of the Three Gorgers Project, and efforts to provide future access to these records.

From Russia three speakers will present a paper also.

  • Mr. Vladimir KOZLOV, Director of the Federal Archival Agency, will speak about The Archives of Russia in the Service to the Society.
  • Mrs. Elena TYURINA, Director of the Russian State Archives of Economics, will discuss the role of archives in helping citizens in drawing up of their family history.
  • Mr. Sergey MIRONENKO, Director of the State Archives of the Russian Federation, will speak about the educational work of archives. He will refer at the role of archives mediator of the history of the country, through publications and exhibitions, as well as through the mass media.

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146_TYURINA_RecordsforPublic.doc58 KB
146_KOZLOV_ArchivesOnservice.doc76 KB

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