Records Management Training Programme, Jan 2006, Macao.

A Records Management Training Programme was conducted in January 2006 in Macao. The programme was developed on behalf of the Macao SAR Government, China. There were approximately seventy participants attending the programme, all coming from the civil service of the Macao SAR Government.

EASTICA invited three lecturers / resource persons from overseas including Mr. Andrew Lipchak and Mr. Francois Guindon from Canada and Dr. Trudy Peterson from the United States. Ms. Sarah Choy, Mr. WAN Wai-kwok and Mr. Simon Chu from the Public Records Office of Hong Kong also assisted in the teaching.

The programme was custom-made for personnel involved in managing records and archives in the Macao Government civil service. It was a ten day programme comprising approximately sixty hours of lecturing, seminar and workshop.

The programme introduced to participants:

i) updated theories and practices in records and archival management;

ii) procedures in establishing a proper records management programme;

iii) theories and practices in records classification and records retrieval;

iv) techniques in taking records inventory;

v) procedures and methodology in drawing up records disposal schedule; and

vi) theories and practices in archiving.

Response from the participants was positive and encouraging. EASTICA is planning on doing something similar in the future.