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IFAD ARCHIVES
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Placement of the Archives in the organizational
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Archives
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IRCs mission
the purpose of the Information Resources Centre
is to support IFADs vision of becoming a leading
world centre of expertise and knowledge on rural
poverty and development issues. The mission is to
provide effective documentation and reference
services for IFAD and for outside users, allowing
user-friendly and efficient access to information
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IRCs Role

• Information broker
• Knowledge sharing facilitator
• Custodian of institutional memory

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RECORDS WORKFLOW

• IRC

• INCOMING,
• OUTGOING
• AND INTERNAL
• RECORDS

• RECORDS
• CENTRE

ACTIVE FILES

• INACTIVE
• FILES

• ARCHIVES

• PERMANENT
• FILES

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Archival Holdings

• Archives
• Permanent records (paper and electronic format)
• Historical records
• Special collections
• (e.g. memorabilia,CD-ROMs, etc.)

• Records Centre
• Inactive files (until disposal date)
• Stock of IFAD basic documents
• Reproduction copies

• Records Centre
• Inactive files (until
• disposal date)
• Stock of IFAD basic
• documents
• Reproduction copies

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IFAD Archives Database

• Main features
• ISAD(G) standards applied to an automated
  environment
• semantic integration with other systems
• browse and search options
• access through IRC Web page