NEKA PITANJA PROBLEMATIKE DOSTUPNOSTI ARHIVSKOGA GRADIVA

Even though the archival profession likes to declare itself on the international, state, national and also local level as the absolute and the unquestionable promotor of rights to total availability of the archives, the truth of the matter is that it encounters on an everyday basis the whole range of limiting factors for carrying out the proclaimed goals. Some of these factors are factual: starting with the whole social-political system, the general national legislative framework, the existence of multiple collisions between laws concerning availability from several domains, various normative solutions from the profession, individual hardened institutional practices, as well as factors that concern the domain of complex blending of terms of tradition-mentality-psychology of the social groups, where various political pressures also take part from time to time. This paper will endeavour, at least on the basic/identification level, to detect various more or less visible and more or less conscious aspects of limited availability to the archives and try to indicate the answer to the complex question: to what extent are the archives unavailable because of the circumstances on which we as the profession and service cannot directly influence, and what reasons can we possibly overcome with insignificantly or considerably changed approach and procedure modes.