| Abstract (croatian) | U suvremenom okruženju arhivi teže postati središta kulturnih, znanstvenih i opće društvenih zbivanja. Moderni arhiv na putu je transformacije svoje tradicionalne uloge znanstvene i kulturne ustanove. S razvojem javne uprave, djelatnost se arhiva sve više širila i na tom polju, a otvaranjem široj javnosti tijekom druge polovice XX. st., arhivi su ponudili i niz novih informacijskih službi i usluga za građane. Državni se arhivi, kao javne ustanove koje financira država, nastoje prilagoditi ekonomskim načelima poslovanja koja uvode ostali dijelovi javne uprave. Riječ je o općem problemu u upravljanju i financiranju kulturnih djelatnosti i ustanova u kulturi. Taj je trend, s jedne strane, obilježen reduciranjem proračunskih sredstava, a s druge, sve većim oslanjanjem na prihode koji se ostvaruju širenjem i naplaćivanjem pojedinih djelatnosti i usluga. Pri tome se arhivi suočavaju s pravnim i etičkim pitanjima razgraničenja temeljnih i dodatnih usluga koje ovise o specifičnim mogućnostima pojedine arhivske ustanove. Potrebe suvremenog društva arhivima nameću sve širi okvir djelovanja koji u mnogome nadilazi puko čuvanje gradiva i uobičajene usluge istraživačima i korisnicima. Od arhiva se sve više traži da se u oblikovanju svojih usluga usmjere na posebne zahtjeve i interese zajednice u kojoj djeluju. Problem suprotstavljenih očekivanja (država – društvo – korisnici) koji, s jedne strane, uvjetuje potrebu za racionalizacijom službe, a s druge, i sve veća očekivanja korisnika, potrebno je raščlaniti na svim područjima poslovanja arhiva. Zadovoljavajuća rješenja svakako treba tražiti u okviru promišljanja arhiva kao posrednika između širokoga kruga korisnika, uprave i znanosti. |
| Abstract (english) | In contemporary environment, marked by neoliberal economy, global information interconnection, accumulation of knowledge and expansion of services, archives tend to become centers of cultural, scientific and global society events. Modern archival institution is on the way to transform its traditional role of being considered only as a scientific and cultural institution. With the development of public administration archival activities have been broadened in that field as well, while, by opening to wider public during the second half of the 20th century, archives have been offering new information services and provisions to citizens.
State archives, as public institutions financed by the government, try to adjust themselves to economic principles of business, already being implemented by other parts of public administration. This trend is, on the one hand, characterized by reduction of budget funds, and on the other, by relying on incomes provided by broadened activities and services and charging for them. Thereby, archives are faced with legal and ethical issues of demarcation between basic and additional services, dependent on particular facilities of each archives.
Therefore, needs of contemporary society impose to archives wider operational framework, which, in many ways, go beyond simple safeguarding of archival material and usual provisions to users and researchers. Within their work archives are more and more asked, in designing their services, to concentrate to special demands and concerns of the community.
Problem of opposite expectations (state – society – users) which is, on the one hand, conditioned by need for service’s rationalization, and one the other, by greater users’ expectations, requires to be analyzed in every field of archives activities:
1. providing services to records’ creators (through transfer of knowledge and cooperation in the field of documentation management),
2. protection and promotion of interests and rights of individuals and groups (through the access to archival material, transparency of public institutions’ work and protection of private and other confidential data), and
3. acting in local community and society (participation in cultural life and shaping identity).
Satisfying solutions should be, by all means, searched for in the framework of archives considered as mediators among wide circle of users, administration and science. |
