The Research On The Construction Of Public Archives

As the development of our economy and society and the progress of material civilization, people's immaterial requirement is more and more high and culture consumption becomes a necessary part of modern society. As cultural institution, archives should adapt itself to the social development and progress, reform and innovate, and walk up to the society and the public. We must try our best to make people know, understand and use the archives and make archives become a part of people's cultural consumption. That is to say, the archives should transform the function and become real public archives.From the foundation of new China to now, our archives enterprise went through the process from close to open to the public. Although the service of archives has open to the public, archives is still not true public archives. At present, the domestic understanding of public archives is numerous, but public archives is not a thing which appears recently. The archives should meet the needs of social development by strengthening its own"public"on the basis of traditional archives.The thesis discusses about the construction of our public archives and it includes six parts. From the concept of public archives and according to the situation of our nation and the new concept from foreign countries, it elaborates some problems on public archives as follows:"what is public archives","why construct public archives","the situation of our public archives","how to construct public archives", etc.Public archives'construction is a long and systematic project and it need the common effort from government, archives and the whole society. Archivists and researchers should combine theory with practice and study unremitting to push the construction of public archives smoothly.