Every November 3, the Day of the Cuban Archivist is celebrated as a tribute to Joaquin Llaverias Martinez, captain of the Liberation Army who became the director of the National Archive in 1922 and is considered the most important promoter of the activity, conservation and documentary diffusion in the country.
The Provincial Historical Archive of Holguin (AHP) remembers on this date the death of Jose Agustin Garcia Castañeda, the “major archivist”, and dedicates the day of 2023 to the study of Information Sciences of the University of Holguin, with which it maintains close ties of cooperation.
As explained by Doctor in Sciences Daysi Ruiz Fuentes, specialist of Information Services of the AHP, it is a novelty this year, the defense in its facilities of three diploma theses, with which they give solution to the bank of problems.
In the Archive, as a teaching unit, work practices are periodically carried out and a Student Scientific Group operates, which, according to Ruiz Fuentes, contributes to the work of the institution the enterprising and passionate spirit of the youth.
notarial protocols, archive, Holguín
The protocol is the fundamental archive of a notary’s deeds. Photo: Heidi Calderón.
In addition to the socialization of research results, the celebratory program for the Day of the Cuban Archivist includes tributes to its most loyal collaborators, among them, Cesar Hidalgo Torres, radio producer and disseminator of the secrets of the Archive and Ventura Carballido Pupo, leader of the project “The memory that saves” in collaboration with the AHP.
Holguin Historical Archive does not rest and although it culminates its participation in the Day of Documentary Management and Historical Memory Cubarchivos 2023, it is already immersed in preparations to commemorate 41 years of its foundation from November 15, with a tribute to one of its pillars, the historian Georgelina Miranda Peláez.
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