General Information:
The Archives Act governs the kinds of records received by the Department, which include a wide variety of items e.g. manuscripts, papers, letters, registers, reports, books, magazines, maps, charts, plans, drawings, pictures, photographs; machine readable records produced on paper or any other material except granite, officially received or produced in any public office in the course of official functions, including cinematograph film, recordings, tapes, discs, judicial records, office papers etc.
Records of private organizations and individuals are also received.
The majority of the collection is stored in environmentally controlled buildings for long term preservation. It includes rare books of enduring value which cannot be easily replaced.
Objective:
To ensure organisational efficiency and accountability by identifying, collecting, processing and preserving public and private records of Barbados
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