30/07/2021
April to July 2021
The Provincial Archives and Records Center (PARC) under the Governor’s Office started accepting permanent and archival records among the Provincial Offices and Hospitals of the Province of Pangasinan in April 2021.
The following offices endorsed and formally transferred their initial permanent and archival records at the PGO-PARC, namely: Human Resource Management and Development Office (HRMDO); Provincial Engineering Office (PEO) and the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO).
The transferred records underwent cleaning, fumigation, evaluation and digitization.
The PGO-PARC also accepted non-records for shredding. These non-records are Personal or Scratch Papers (Documentary materials belonging to an individual that are not used to conduct agency business); Extra Copies (Documents which are preserved only for convenience, or reference, of which no action is recorded or taken); Publications (Publications that are received from other Government agencies, commercial firms, or private institutions and that require no actions and nor part of a case on which action is taken.); and Worn out folders.
The offices of the PGO-Administrative Services Division, Provincial Administrator, Provincial Board Secretary, and the Provincial Planning and Development Coordinator have endorsed their non-records for shredding at the PGO-PARC. The shredded papers in 151 large plastic garbage bags were delivered at the OPAG-Nursery to be plowed under as fertilizers or are used as feeds to the vermi-culture production of the province.
The PGO-PARC received national exposure, when the National Archives of the Philippines (NAP) invited Dr. Irmina B. Francisco, Ed.D., as the Guest of Honor and Speaker during the Webinar on Records Disposition Administration of the National Archives of the Philippines last June 14, 2021, in order to share the Pangasinan’s experience in successful records management.
The PARC members also interacted with the IT experts of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) regarding Archives and Records Management on July 12, 2021. Provincial IT experts, Mr. Allan M. Posadas, MISO and Mr. Isaac F. Bernardo, PGO-PARC led the group in the said activity. In attendance were the other PARC employees and staff headed by Ms. Jennifer D. Cruz, Center Supervisor.
It will be another full-packed trimester for the PARC on August until September when auditors, Ms. Jennifer and Mr. Isaac visit the hospitals and offices for their records audit.