ARHIVSKI VJESNIK 45. (ZAGREB, 2002.)

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EDITORIAL The volume in front of you is both large in size and diversified in content. We believe that everyone will find in it something to expand their knowledge, something that will be of particular interest, or assist them in their daily work, or even encourage them to discussion. In the series of papers given at the annual conference of the Croatian Archival Society, articles were collected around the topic of Standard ISO 15489 - Records Management. Although there is no central presentation on requests and assumptions of standards here, contributions we publish undoubtedly deserve attention. The article The condition of the archives inspection service in Croatia and its priorities gives an overview of the situation based on data collected by a poll, and evaluations and proposals related to the future work of the service in the Croatian archives are put forward. Based on theoretical assumptions and practical solutions of new classification systems in the Canadian and Australian records management, the article Problems in the functional classification systems creating analyses functional classification systems in relation to those based according to topics, with the indication of problems arising in their establishment in Croatian practice. The article Review of records keeping project— reception and processing of records - describes functions of the application for records management at the City Institute for Automated Data Processing in Zagreb, in the order specified by the provisions of the Records Management Ordinance, with several illustrations of forms for the work of users. The series terminates with an article on positive Slovenian practice of cooperation between the archival profession and the state administration in the creation of the computer application for use throughout the public administration - LOTUS NOTES Spis. Three articles on history of institutions in the period of socialism give an overview on the knowledge of organisation, functions, competence and mutual links of creators that may significantly facilitate creation of fonds, their arrangement and description. They arrange by topic the Parliament of the People's Republic of Croatia, the organisation and functioning of its working bodies and of its both Councils during the Parliament constitutions period 1953-63 and a concise review of the administration in Croatia in 1945-1953 in the context of relations and connections with the federal administration and the role of Republic ministries and the Government of the People's Republic of Croatia. Further on, on the example of creators responsible for buying and selling of food products and food industry, they enumerate problems in creation of archival fonds (1945-1952): are administrations and directorates from the period after the Second World War to be considered as sub-fonds within ministries and councils or as independent fonds? 9