Os impactos da pandemia Covid-19 no trabalho arquivístico em universidades públicas da Paraíba

Abstract

This current paper aims to present the impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the public universities of Paraíba, focusing on work exercised by these institutions’ archivists. Data was collected from the professionals in the archives of public universities in the state of Paraíba, by utilizing the qualitative and quantitative research method. A online quiz was applied as research tool, elaborated from the theoretical reference, including objective and subjective questions, divided in five stages total. From the answers collected by the quiz, analysis by data category have been made in order to understand how the archivists’ work was carried during the period of social isolation and after the flexibilization, besides the new ways found to work with documentation in the archives of said institutions during the pandemic scenario. Generally, it was observed as result that the archives had to adapt to this new reality, with the development of new service padronization techniques, incrementing emergencial measures and technological procedures, and updating other existing services already programmed wich were concretized in anticipation due to the remote activities scenario.