Acesso à informação em arquivos públicos municipais: análise do Arquivo Central da Prefeitura de Fortaleza

Abstract

It presents the main instruments of access to the information in Municipal Public Archives by means of study carried through in a Municipal Archive. It also describes as the access to the inforrnation for the users in the same is carried through. The theoretical axle of the research was the current questioning in Brazil on the access to the inforrnation and its democratization to the citizen. It approaches on the concepts and the current situation of the management of the documentary information and in public institutions inferring on the importance of the document evaluation as effective mechanism in the organization and maintenance of Archives.