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Disaster Preparedness And Security Management In Archives
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Though,
because of the valuable nature of archival collections, they need to be
properly secured. So, there should be a need for adequate security
management measures to be taken by the National Archives, Owerri Branch
to secure her collection and buildings from disasters. This is because
disaster is a thing that could come at any time hence there is a need to
get ready for it at all times. The number of different disastrous
incidents world-wide has caused many damages to archival collections.
This has however, created on increased awareness of the need for
disaster prevention, security and control planning is recent years.
Protection
from loss by fire is basic to any record-preservation program, which
will emphasize fire prevention by insisting on high standards of
housekeeping, periodic patrols and the like. Nevertheless, provision
should be made by National Archives, Owerri, by providing some of these
fighting equipment or fire detecting systems that are used in modern
times like automatic fire alarm, automatic sprinkles, automatic
extinguisher or automatic carbon-dioxide extinguisher etc. And also they
should ensure that equipment are manned or handled by a well trained
staff or expert.
HISTORY OF NATIONAL ARCHIVES, OWERRI BRANCH
The
National Archives Owerri was founded in June 1986 alongside other
institutions that were founded at that time. Formerly, the institution
was temporary located at Okigwe Road Secretariat Owerri before it was
relocated to the Federal Secretariat in Port Harcourt Road, in September
1996, under the leadership of Mr. E.I. Nsoro, who was its Pioneer
Archivist.
On its establishment in 1986, National Archives, Owerri was under the Ministry of Education.
Later,
it was attached to Ministry of Youths, sports and culture before it
finally found itself in the Ministry of Information and culture. Later
in the year 2001, culture was removed from information and it became
known as Ministry of Information and National Orientation.
The National Archives Owerri has the following sections:
1. Administrative section
2. Account section
3. Search room section
4. Repository section
5. Library section
6. Binding section
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Human
beings do not think about disaster. However, whether we think about
disaster or not, they surely do occur sometimes with devastating
consequences. A disaster whether natural or man-made or by a combination
of these is an event which timing is unexpected and which consequences
are seriously destructive. This, disaster is a threat that might cause
harm to the office records, building, staff or an unscheduled disruption
of normal office services. In as much as the National Archives Owerri
may or may not have witnessed any dangerous disaster since its
inception, thus the researcher wants to embark on this because of an
interest to find out the need for disaster preparedness.
More so,
since there are needs for disaster preparedness, prevention, control
planning and adequate security of archival collections, the researcher
however wants to find out the reasons why there should be a proper
security management and different protective measures in which the
National Archives Owerri Branch should adhere to.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The project is based on the Disaster Preparedness and Security Management of National Archives, Owerri Branch. This work is divided into 5 (five) chapter.Chapter one, highlighted what disaster is and different causes and types of disaster. In chapter two, the necessary literatures were reviewed. In chapter three, the research method used was survey method, the research finding were based on the data collected from the research instrument are shown in the methodology. Chapter four, shows how date ... Continue reading---
