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s Century, Arh. vjesn., god. 40(1997) str. 89-93 sveučilištima, predavanja jednog ili više predavača na razini arhivske institucije, učenje uz pomoć videa, World Wide Weba i sličnih tehnika učenja na daljinu. Svaki način ima svoje prednosti i nedostatke, koji se mogu ukloniti kombiniranjem načina obuke. Bez obzira na način obuke, permanentno obrazovanje zahtijeva aktivno sudjelovanje arhivista koji želi proširiti svoje znanje, arhivske institucije koja podržava kontinuiran profesionalan razvoj zaposlenika te predavača. Niti jedan način ne odgovara svim zahtjevima, a da bi se udovoljilo potrebama arhivista 21. stoljeća, treba ponuditi široku paletu načina i mogućnosti permanentnog obrazovanja. Sažetak izradila Živana Hedbeli In a vorld of rapidly changing information systems, the archivist must engage in lifelong learning. This docs not mean that the archivist's initial archival education will be discarded; rather, it means that it must form a solid foundation to support the integration of additional theories and practices that will arise over the course of a professional lifetime. As an example, let me look at what has changed in my archival lifetime. Formats. The formats of documents have been reinvented many times. We have gone from paper letters to e-mail, from microfilm to digital storage, from a photograph to multimedia linked by hypertext. And with it the methodologies needed to manage these formats have changed. Size. The size of the archival enterprise has changed. It has grown to include the management of current records. In many countries there is a new or renewed emphasis on the systematic solicitation and acquisition of material from private sources. These lead to ever-larger archival enterprises requiring more management skills by the archival leadership. Demographics. More women, more ethnic and racial backgrounds are found among archivists today. Organization of the profession. The international network of archival organizations, the professional societies with special emphases: these are mostly products of the second half of the twentieth century. Similarly the profession has been enhanced by many additional schools and training programs spanning Europe and North America, Africa and Australia. More journals have appeared, fostering the dissemination of ever more serious discourse. That, in turn, means it is difficult, if not impossible, for a working professional to keep up with the literature of the profession. Internationalism. The advent of the international description standards is a milestone in international archival cooperation. It says that archivist are looking at 90