ARHIVSKI VJESNIK 44. (ZAGREB, 2001.)

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Ž. Heđbeli, Privatno arhivsko gradivo, Arh. vjesn., god. 44 (2001), str. 93-101 Summary PRIVATE ARCHIVAL RECORDS The paper deals with problems related to private archival records: from the status of archives placed in the filed; the present legislative; methodology of categorization of private records owners; general and individual retention schedules for specific types of records' creators; to (ill) success of archival service in assuring existence and access of this more that important part of the memory of the people to the future generation. The year 1997 archival law basic principles of regarding private archival records are not essentially new. The law declares equal treatment of public and private records, which is still not realized. Private archival records protection clearly shows all imperfection of archival service existing practice. Every day work on the private archival records protection raise many questions, among them: - private records creators' insufficient awareness on necessity of formalized and arranged records management; - private records creators' real obligations and authorized archives relevant measures; - archives' share in the complete life cycle of paper and other private record; - qualification of people working in the private creators' offices and registry offices; - destiny of records when private creators end its existence; - consultation of private records; and private records protection from all the segments of state and people life. The fact that public administration and archival service together with private creators need to proclaim, on the basis of experience gained through work and business in the system of private ownership and market-economy, new laws and regulations on private creators records management and protection of private archival records can not be disputed. If this pressing issues will not be settled soon, and laws not be really carried out, our offspring will have no problem with private records, since it will not exist. Keywords: private archival records, archival legislation, private archives, specialized archives 101