As presented by Luyen Thu Thuy at the 2019 FIAT/IFTA World Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia.

1. The transformation
of the traditional role of archivist
in the media world
THE CASE FROM VIETNAM

2. Preservin
g
Promoting
THE BALANCE

3. The State Archives Department of
Vietnam
 1962
 4 national archives centers
 30 linear kilometers of records dating back
from XV century to the present day

4. * Accurate
* Store
* Prerseve
* Digitize
* Provide access

5. Audiovisual
records:
100,833
photographs

6. Audiovisual
records:
362 rolls of
film,
477 hours of
video

7. Audiovisual
records:
8,574 hours of
sound record,
4,295 hours of
audio cassettes

8. The
government
invests a lot of
facilities,
modern
equipment…

9. Professional
storage
which has
been built in
2018

10. Modern
equipment
Older mindset

11. Preserving
records mission
and information
demand of the
society

12. How to maintain a balance between
the two?

13. Digitization –
the ultimate way to be a
super servant

14. The State Archives Department of
Vietnam
“Computerization of archives work” - 1986
Infrastructure of IT
Databases and application software
Informatics Center and Documentary
Insurance Center - 2005

15. The greatest news:
Online storage
center will be
build

16. AN AGGRESSIVE COMMUNICATION STRATEGY
the Government and the society to recognize the importance and
value of national archives.
*social networks and social media
http://www2.optics.rochester.edu/workgroups/cml/opt307/s
pr10/shu-wei/

17. Broadcasters and Archives
Sustainable Steps and Changes

18. VIETNAM - 2015
857 press agencies nationwide
105 online newspapers and magazines
67 broadcasts
 183 channels of broadcasting programs
77 radio broadcast channels
 75 paid TV channel channels
…

19. How?
to occupy the unique position of a
long-standing national television
channel?
 to master the information battlefield?
 to master the digital media
environment?

20. Co-operation and Development
BROADCASTERS ARCHIVES
Playing a unique role in providing news
with original, unique and even declassified
documents.
Promote the value of historical records
regularly and effectively
Curation of the digital resources and
addition of graphics, still images, voice-
overs, subtitle and dubtitle are carried out
by the archives staff supported by the
centralized management of the archives
Strike a balance between proactive
access and reactive access.

21. Broadcasters and Archives
Sustainable Steps and Changes

22. Changed the roles
They are not only preserving records,
they have become heritage managers
of audiovisual materials from
production to distribution and long-
term storage.

23. The transformation
of the traditional role of
archivist
in the media world