Diagnóstico do Arquivo Geral Municipal de Cabedelo-PB quanto a preservação e conservação documental

Abstract

Research carried out in the Municipal General Archive of the city of Cabedelo - PB, aiming to diagnose how the preservation and preservation of documents is carried out. It is characterized as a descriptive and bibliographic research, the quantitative and qualitative approaches were used to analyze the data and the questionnaire as a collection tool. The data indicate that the employees who are part of the archive do not perform a function compatible with the real qualifications that need an archival collection and that the level of education corresponds to the 2nd complete, besides informing that there is no document preservation plan in the archive and That the public managers do not invest in the qualification of the employees of the sector. It is concluded that the Municipal Archive of Cabedelo-PB needs a document preservation and preservation policy, which covers all the staff in order to qualify them through courses and training, so that they may have a greater Conscience of preservation and preservation of documents, and thus extend the useful life of the documents and the collection.