Institucionalidade arquivistica: uma investigação sobre as instituições arquivísticas públicas municipais do Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

This work addresses the theme of public policies and archival legislation in Brazil and seeks to investigate the degree of archival institutionality evidenced in the legislation of the forty-five municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul that have a population of more than fifty thousand inhabitants. In methodological terms, this research presents a differentiated component: seeking legal subsidies to confirm the existence of Public Archival Institutions (IAPs) duly institutionalized in this State. To carry out the analysis of the municipal legislation investigated, four evaluation criteria were established (legal device for creating the IAP; linking the IAP to the municipal Public Administration; budgetary resources allocated to the IAP; and qualified human resources allocated to the IAP). These criteria were based on what is recommended by National Archives Council (CONARQ) in its Resolution nº 27/2008, and implemented the definition of the elementary conditions for measuring the degree of archival institutionality in the sample municipalities. The results of archival institutionality in these municipalities made it clear that it is still very incipient, concentrating on the "very low" and "low" levels, thus totaling 87% of the sample. This generates a significantly negative impact in relation to archival aspects, which do not exist in 62% of these municipalities. The other degrees (“medium” and “high”) together represent only 13% of the total, where only one Municipal Public Archival Institution reached the maximum level (“high”) of compliance with the archival precepts recommended by CONARQ. This emphasizes the pressing need to implement changes and adjustments in the sphere of subnational entities in Rio Grande do Sul. Given this, we understand that this research initiated an important movement: that of seeking to understand archival institutionality at the municipal level, identifying Public Archival Institutions (central bodies of this institutionality), and basing this search on municipal legislation, which we understand to be a return concrete and reliable.