Archives

The Director shall be responsible for the preservation of all public records of continuing or permanent value and shall in particular be responsible for, (a) arranging and describing those records; and providing appropriate guides, lists, indexes 14 and other finding aids through the use of current technology to facilitate their access; (b) arranging for reasonable facilities to be available to the public for accessing public (c) establishing rules to be observed for access to, and for obtaining, copies of public records (d) preparing publications or objects relating to public records for sale; (e) arranging exhibitions and facilitating copies of public records as may be needed for exhibitions elsewhere; subject to conditions which he may specify, except that loan outside Belize may not be made without the assent of the Minister; (f) disposing of any public records in the Belize Archives and Records Service if it seems to him that they are not of continuing or permanent value, subject to the agreement of the head of the public office in which they were created or its successor; (g) acquiring by donation, bequest, or loan any record, manuscript or any printed matter which in his opinion should be deposited in the Belize Archives and Records Service for permanent preservation; (h) examining any collection of records, in private possession for purposes of identifying such records of historical, cultural or literary value with the view to appraise, document and render such technical aid or assistance as may be necessary for the preservation of such (i) promoting the historical, cultural and literary value and use of records and archives; (j) microfilming, digitizing or otherwise reproducing or making copies of any public record or record of historical, cultural or literary value.