2018, Vol., No.58

The Korean Journal of Archival Studies 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.98

pISSN : 1229-7941 / eISSN : 2671-7891
https://journal.kci.go.kr/ksas

This article analyses 10 years of the operation condition of the National Archives and Records Management Committee since its constitution. The object is to provide basic data for its evaluation. The Committee deliberated specific issues defined by records management act. The issues and the reports were concentrated on the task of the National Archives. As a consequence, the Committee could not play a role as a governance organization but as merely a consultative body of the National Archives.

The foremost priority for establishing record management of public institutions is strengthening the function and role of the records centers in the institutions and creating the foundation of the organization and personnel for demonstrating professionalism of archivists. However, concept of current records center is not clear and there is no substance of the organization. It also says that once a records manager is deployed, a records center is founded since appointment criteria for archivists is prone to be interpreted subjectively by the institutions. Therefore, it’s time for more concrete improvements to resolve these issues. This research analyses some problems found in the system of records centers in the main office and district offices of education focusing on the environment of them. The problems are centers without substance in district offices of education because of the organization structure that all authority has been assembled in the main office, and the reality of records managers who have fallen into records discarders, etc. To solve these problems, this paper proposes changing the appointment criteria for archivists, operating an integrated records center reflecting the intensive working system, and legislating special act on record management of educational institutions.

This paper is an example of records & archival management in Sagamihara City, Japan. The purpose of this paper is to examine the process and main contents of the Japanese record community making ‘exemplary records management system’ in the region. Specifically, the organization of the Records Management Council, which performs the limited function and role of the ‘advisory body’, actively utilized the organization of ‘local government’, which is the main governance organization of municipal administration in the process of regulating the ordinances and related regulations. In this process, related record information at each stage of record management is actively provided to the members of the society. This case is significant in that it presents the “practical view” of the recording community in the reality of the records management in Korea where there is no archive, which is the material foundation of the realization of ‘systematic record management’.