Políticas de avaliação de documentos em instituições públicas de ensino superior de Florianópolis - SC

Abstract

Documents appraisal is an essential activity in records management, it is an archivistic function that is responsible to identify values to the documents, aiming to establish retention period or disposal term for the documentation, because it would not be possible to keep everything, on the one hand because the difficulties to find a document in a very large mass of documents and, on the other hand, by the lack of physical space availability itself. The Higher Education Institutions are also facing the problems generated by the continuous increase of documents, especially in public institutions. In this way, the present research aimed at investigating the policies related to documents appraisal in public institutions of Higher Education at Florianópolis – SC, as well as to characterize the profile of the professional that are responsible by the archives at the studied institutions and also, to verify the appliance of public archivistic policies. To do so, we carried out a descriptive study with a qualitative approach where, with the appliance of a questionnaire, we collected data from three Higher Education institutions. The data was analyzed, considering a literature review and the Brazilian Archivistic Law regarding the documents appraisal at state and federal levels. The findings highlighted different realities at the three institutions and, from this situation some considerations and recommendations were made.