1. Learning from others' experiences: the debates around the public access to documents in electronic format at the National Archives of Romania
Alina PAVELESCU

2. A very short history – understanding the difficult starting point of 2007
70’s evolutions – a different paradigm of the “public access” and its consequences on the archival work
Stagnation and regress in the ’80s and ‘90s – the critical point of the Romanian archival science

3. Present situation archival legislation in Romania
legislation concerning electronic records management in Romania
National Archives of Romania -first steps to a new phase

4. New project. New beginning?
The project: An integrating system for managing information and public services at the National Archives

5. Project specifications: what’s new for the Romanian Archives

6. Functional architecture of the system

7. What we expect to solve.

8. Managerial challenges
Implementing new procedures: the question of the archival standards at the Romanian Archives
Rethinking specific activities – where to start? how to proceed?
The human factor – training people for the new challenges
A new public approach: how to gain new public and to preserve the traditional one?

9. Professional challenges
changing mentalities about profession
incorporating new skills
redefining the public image of the profession

10. A conclusion
Romanian National Archives – the change of professional paradigm as a must
Need of competencies – need of professional communication
Learning from others’ experiences - Starting later is not the worst position