International Archives Day 2013 poster

Through International Archives Day, we can:

• make the public aware of the importance of archives, underpinning their rights and their identity;
• Make the decision-makers aware of the advantages of good record-keeping for good governance and well-planned development;
• Make both public and private sectors aware of the need to preserve archives over the long term, and to facilitate access to them;
• Promote and make known unique, extraordinary and rare documents preserved in archives to a broad section of the public;
• Improve the perception that people have of archives and raise their profile globally.