PREGLED I KORIŠTENJE FONDOVA DRUŠTVENO-POLITIČKIH ORGANIZACIJA SOCIJALISTIČKOG PERIODA U ARHIVU TUZLANSKOG KANTONA
REVIEW AND USE OF FONDS OF SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS FROM THE ERA OF SOCIALISM IN THE ARCHIVE OF TUZLA CANTON

Summary/Abstract: The Archive of Tuzla Canton owns 34 fonds pertaining to the work and activities of socio-political organizations of the socialist period and two union funds. All these fonds were acquired before 1990 and all except one trade union fond was archivistically processed. Due to the situation in which these fonds were acquired (unbroken and in bulk), the processing of these fonds was made difficult. As a result, there was a need to revise the above fonds, which was done in the period from 2012 to 2017, when auditing 33 of the 34 fonds of this group was carried out, with the note being the last revision. Today, 30 inventories of social-political organizations can be found on the Archive’s website. Analyzing the use of these fonds found that only 15 researchers used these fonds between 2012 and 2016, which is relatively small. It is interesting to note that users who dealt with topics from the socialist period and used the materials of socio-political organizations did not use the material of intermunicipial conferences, although there may be reports or other documents that the municipal conferences did not preserve. Archivists have the obligation to provide researchers with help where the topic permits, as researchers sometimes do not orient themselves well in the research process, and sometimes they avoid some relevant archival material. Archivists worry about the uncertainty of records of socialist socio-political organization ist that has not been transferred to the Archive yet. The External Service is now following the state of the matter, which has largely remained with the Social Democratic Party committees, as well as the grassroots organizations. Since this is a very interesting type of material in the future, special attention needs to be directed and create good assumptions for digitization and microfilming of these funds, as well as adequate monitoring of the background of socio-political organizations created after 1990.

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