ARHIVSKI VJESNIK 44. (ZAGREB, 2001.)

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EDITORIAL The first congress of Croatian archivists has been certainly the most important meeting in the archival profession in Croatia 2001. From the point of view of Arhivski vjesnik that event has double significance. As it is our duty to present up this event on our pages as a specific image of the current situation of the archival service in Croatia, so the congress papers - taken into consideration the quality and the problem area included - at the same time fitted excellently into some of the present and past editorial guidelines. The entire records continuum (from their creation till the point of their use), the integration of the archival service and records management, the adjustments of the archival service to the more demanding IT requirements of our environment and consistent with it the protection and guarantee of accessibility to the records created nowadays, are only few main points among these guidelines. In this volume we published fifteen articles previously presented at the Congress. The leading article outlines the current situation of the Croatian archival service, its organisation and the main preconditions for the further development as well as the link between the archives and the records management. Some viable and developmental issues are questioned in separate supplements of the first plenary session: how to redefine the educational programs of the basic archival high education, do we need specialised archives in the field of science and education, economy, mass media etc., the condition of the archive buildings in Croatia and preservation of the records written on the acid paper and its protection from the rapid deterioration. The thematic block of the Congress on cooperation between the archives and the creators gave us the picture of soundly elaborated records management system. The new international standard for records management has been presented as well as the methodology of classification systems development based on the functional principle with implemented records schedules. In that block is also the article on protection and keeping of private archives of political parties, religious communities, associations etc. From the third plenary session are articles on the role of the metadata in records management, conditions and creation the sound metadata system and changes of records management systems in the information society and digital revolution as well as the legal aspects relating to the authenticity of records in the electronic environment. Furthermore, in the presentation of the hybrid reprography system some questions are raised on the most cost effective and efficacious reproduction techniques of the records, and characteristics of the film material, mainly on the triacetate media, points out the systematic changes which took place in the protection of the film material. On the example of the State Intellectual Property Office 9