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PUSTAKA NEGERI SARAWAK HOLDS SEMINAR ON RECORDS AND ARCHIVES

Posted on 12 November 2016

Kuching – Pustaka Negeri Sarawak will hold Records and Archives Seminar 2016 ( RAS2016) 
on 14 – 15 November 2016 at Pustaka Negeri Sarawak.

Records and Archives Seminar is one of the activities planned in 2016 for departments, state agencies and the 
public in Sarawak.
 
Other ongoing activities include advisory visits, courses and workshops, records appraisal, disposition of records and 
conservation of department’s valuable records. 

This is the first Records and Archive Management seminar organized by the library to create awareness on the 
importance of records and 
archives for the sustainability of history and heritage.
 The seminar is also as a medium for information sharing and network to better manage public records. 

There will be seventeen (17) invited speakers. Speakers are from Australia, South Korea, Singapore,
 Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia and Malaysia. About twelve (12) papers on records and archives management will be 
presented in the two (2) days seminar and six (6) workshop parallel sessions will be conducted. 




The papers are “Best Practices in Records and Archive Management”, “Record Keeping in the Digital Age”, 
“Risk Management and Technology in Records and Archives”, and “Records and Archives in Justice,
 Advocacy and Reconciliation Work.”

About 300 participants from local agencies and departments have registered for the seminar. 

The Records and Archives Seminar 2016 ( RAS2016) will be launched by YB Datuk John Sikie anak Tayai,
 Assistant Minister for Native Laws and Customs & Assistant Minister for Arts and Culture representing the Chief Minister
 of Sarawak. 

For further information, 
kindly contact Dayangku  Horiah Awang Gani or Vincent Jinap at 082-440488 ( State Records Repository ) or 
email dayanghg@sarawak.gov.my / vincenj1@sarawak.gov.my or visit www.pustaka-sarawak.com/ras2016.