What are the basic principles of archival work?

The basic principles of archival work are:

Implement the principle of unified leadership and hierarchical management, maintain the integrity and safety of archives, and facilitate the use of all sectors of society.

The specific content of its work refers to the collection, collation, identification, storage, statistics, retrieval, compilation and utilization of archives, which is usually called eight links.

The first six links are basic work, while the last two links are compilation, research and utilization.

Extended data

As far as its basic nature and main functions are concerned, archives management is a management work, a service work and a political work.

Archives management does not produce material wealth, and archives are mainly not produced and utilized by archives management institutions and archivists. Is responsible for the management of historical documents formed by various departments.

But the file management system is not isolated, but an indispensable part of various social management systems. Serving social practice by providing archival information is one of the characteristics that distinguish archival management from other work.

At all stages of social history, archives management must serve certain economy, politics and culture, otherwise it will not exist and it will be difficult to develop. In a class society, file management embodies certain class relations and class interests, which is mastered by a certain ruling class and serves the economy, politics and culture of a certain class. This service direction is a concentrated expression of the political nature of archives management.

Because the contents of archives are related to the political and economic interests of the country, any country at home and abroad has certain confidentiality requirements for archives management. Some archives are not open to the public, while most archives are not open until after the prescribed time limit. This confidentiality is also an essence of file management.

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