ARHIVSKI VJESNIK 46. (ZAGREB, 2003.)

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EDITORIAL In the last year there have been numerous changes, including the editorial board of Arhivski vjesnik. We sincerely regret that some of our members have left. Nevertheless we welcome among us the new members with the hope that they will stay permanently with us and actively participate in the preparations of the volumes in which we as editors all sign. To all our collaborators sincerely thanks and to all our readers we wish a pleasant participation with Vjesnik. In the first section of this volume readers can read about extended lectures presented at the annual meeting of the Croatian Archival Society. The main theme was The Archives and Records Creators. The categorisation of those creating records is presented in three articles. It can be presumed that those articles might bring more light and give some substance to removing the obstacles of disagreement as well as different perspectives for the basis from which the records creators has been valued in the Croatian praxis. The article Aim and Purpose of the Categorization of Records Creators introduces the reader to the history of categorisation in Croatia. The author discusses three different models of categorisation and stresses its meaning as the instrument of the acquisition policy of archives. The author of the article Introducing Categorisation for the Bodies of State Administration thoroughly explains and elaborates the categorisation in general, also foreign practices and for the time being the unfinished categorisation for the bodies of state administration in Croatia. The article Contribution to the Categorisation of Records Creators in the Area of Education and Culture, through several examples of schools and museums from the field of work of the State Archives in Rijeka, the author presents the approach to categorisation of archival material as a cultural treasure. A specific note from the strict questioning of categorisation is the article about the archival service in Lika, in other words about the creators in charge of our youngest state archives {Archives and Records Creators: State Archives in Gospić) and the article Archives and Non-Governmental Non-Profitable Organisations: Supervision of the Associations and the Acquisition Policy, where a considerable amount of undocumented material from the recent past from the 1990's has not been documented, and it will remain so if the attitude of the archives toward the associations as the creators of records does not significantly and quickly change. Other articles on records management such as the MoReq and Records Management presents to us the content, goal and history of the MoReq specification of the electronic systems for data processing, created for the needs of the European Union with a brief review of present records management in the Croatian public services. The main theme of the article Project of the City Institute for Automated Data Processing: Reception and Processing ofRecords and the Disposal of Records in the Registry is an elaboration about connection of