Covering of Records Appraisal Issues in «Deloproizvodstvo» magazine

Records created by organizations and institutions have different value. Society is not able to store all records. Therefore, records appraisal, or studying of records on the basis of their value in order to define storage periods for them, is carried out in organizations. Specialized magazines published in our country, such as "Deloproizvodstvo ", "Sekretarskoye delo", "Vestnik arkhivista" etc., are supposed to provide certain scientific, practical and methodical help in the organization and conduct of records appraisal. To understand if they solve this task successfully, it is necessary to carry out an analysis of the contents of these periodicals. Since there is a wide array of information, usage of content analysis method for this research seems reasonable. Content analysis implies that large amount of unstructured information is processed to receive necessary data in a numerical form, and then these data are interpreted depending on the aim of the research. This research is based on the articles from «Deloproizvodstvo» magazine published in 1998, 2007 and 2014. Such selection allows to track the dynamics in covering of the topic of records appraisal in this magazine. The research shows the dynamics in topicality of records appraisal issues from 1998 to 2014 and identifies problems that are more or less related to this subject within the time period specified above. The following conclusions were made: 1. During the first ten years of «Deloproizvodstvo» magazine's existence, rising of interest in records appraisal was observed. However, recently records appraisal has been pushed to the background because more attention was paid to information technologies. 2. The biggest amount of articles that mention records appraisal are collected under the "office-work" theme. It allows to conclude that first of all records appraisal is demanded in practical work with documents, and its applied aspects are studied most actively. 3. Most of the articles that mention records appraisal are published in the sections called "records management" and "archiving". More than a half of all the key words related to records appraisal are mentioned in the "archiving" section. Thus, it is possible to draw a conclusion that the theme of records appraisal is studied more thoroughly in archival institutions than in organizations.

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