Institucionalização e implementação de arquivos públicos municipais : a experiência da Fundação Pedro Calmon - Centro de Memória e Arquivo Público da Bahia

摘要

This present intervention has the objective to relate the experience of the Pedro Calmon Foundation - Memory Center and Public Archives of Bahia in the support and technical assistance for the municipal districts of Bahia to institutionalize and to implement public municipal archives. In the decade of 80s covenants were signed to create Regional Archives, notedly that of Recôncavo, in the city of Cachoeira, with the intention of decentralizing the administration of the public documents, facing the need of organize and conserve the historical files of the region. Since 1991, by means of the definition and implantation of a new public documents administration policy, the State Government of Bahia, through the Culture and Tourism Secretariat conceded a specific budgetary unit to the old State Public Archives of Bahia. It can be observed in theses last ten (10) years significant results, not only to the strengthens of the Archives State System, but also for the autonomy of the municipal administration, with emphasis for the constitutional devices and for the current archives legislation.