Challenges and achievements of professional work

Report on live experience in the archives of Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Sergipe – Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Sergipe (IFS)

Abstract

When starting the development of archival activities at an organization, the professional must know the administrative structure as well as the organizational culture that permeates the whole structure. With the new social demands that impacts the business scenarios, it isn’t enough just a professional versed on the techniques of your own area of expertise, it’s necessary to search competencies that makes it possible to potentialize results by articulating the resources. All these implications concern the different fields related to the information science, such as librarians, archivers, documentalists and information managers. Through a descriptive research, this study tries to emphasize the lived experience throughout the action developed in the organizational process of archive and expansion of activities that concerns the sector responsible for implementing documental management inside Instituto Federal de Educação Ciência e Tecnologia de Sergipe - Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Sergipe (IFS). There is a lot of ground to cover to consolidate the documental management in the Institute, however it is necessary to acknowledge all the evolutive process done by the group in the last years.