NEKI PROBLEMI I PERSPEKTIVE RAZVOJA REGISTRATURNOG GRADIVA U UPRAVI I OPĆENITO
SOME PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES OF GENERAL ADMINISTRATION RECORDS DEVELOPMENT

Summary/Abstract: E-government has partially caused occurrence of certain problems and this paper deals with them. Administrations' situation influences archives work because it is administration that creates currents records from which archival records are created by selection and evaluation. Independent states have been created by disintegration of the SFRJ. New states have abolished single- party systems, accepted market-economy, changed quite a lot of laws and partially removed former personnel. It is characteristic for every new state power, in its early stage, not to manage to well records. State of records management is result of, among others reasons: high-ranking officials' indifference, office workers' insufficient education, writing and registry offices' rank. By changes of a state system most of the records have lost its practical value for the administration and become ballast. It can be said that in times of transition almost the biggest problem is archival and current records of collapsed soc-realistic enterprises. As IT is foundation of economy and society of the 21 century it is necessary to network state institutions' information systems, create e-government, and digitalize cultural, national, educational and business contents. IT raises a question of registry offices future, and electronic recorders changes archives' work. IT inexorably raises questions of cost-effectiveness, market, efficiency and funds regarding archival service. Use of archival records is the only thing that justifies its preservation. IT has not changed the very basic nature of records creation; they are output and by-product of administrative and business processes. Nor the necessity of preservation of documents as evidence has been changed. Would that basic function still be performed by archives depends only on today's archivists. If the profession by itself does not justify need for its existence, it will not exist anymore.

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