Diagnóstico da gestão documental no Instituto Federal Farroupilha: proposta de criação de um departamento geral de arquivos

Abstract

The current paper is part of archivistic studies, and got as purpose to perform the diagnostic of the documental administration of the Instituto Federal Farroupilha, IFF, and check the necessity of propose the creation of a general archive department on the institute, the analysis of the theoretical reference demonstrates the importance of public archivistic policies adoption and to care about the documental administration on any kind of institution. The bibliographic research, associated to the observation on the research place, originated the creation of a questionnaire that has been applied to the administrators as part of the methodology used on the development of the study. As results was noticed that the documents produced by the Instituto Federal Farroupilha are under supervision of the superior of each sector or department, having no rules or any other system of archives. Under the questionnaire application was clear that the administrators understand the necessity of the general archives department creation purpose, due to the archivistic legislation rules that are peculiar to the federal public body. Beside this, because of the economy, resources rationalization and rendered services quality after the archivistic activities implementation at the institution, the mentioned department creation is justified. The value of the information existent on the archive (historic, provable and of knowledge values) make part of the justification. The archives general department creation signs to appreciate the archivist professional, because just with appropriate upbringing the archivistic works going to be conceived in an efficient and effective way on the Instituto Federal Farroupilha.