Estudo sobre meios de acesso no Arquivo Histórico Municipal do Rio Grande

Abstract

This paper presents a case study with a qualitative approach, attempts to identify which are the means of access to perform the search to documents in the custody of the Municipal Historical Archive of Rio Grande - AHMRG. Therefore, the problem with this methodology was to examine how these documents are located. Thus, the search was justified, because we professionals have a duty to disclose to the public the information contained in files, and also because the Rio Grande is the oldest of our state. Information was collected through an informal interview, and especially the observation that helped identify not only how it's performed access, but also check the existing set of documents in the collection. Will be presented in the theoretical framework historical Historical Archive, a brief account of the municipal archives, followed by information on laws, law on access and means of access, then the archival description function and finally the archival memory . From the results obtained we realized that few search tools and thus there was a need to prepare a guide to the Repository entity according to the Brazilian Standard for Archival Description - NOBRADE to give visibility to the collection. With the achieved objectives and according to the results found that the Historical Archive is in a process of restructuring and thus meets some difficulties regarding access.