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Vision
To be a cultural institution recognized by the society and that serves its citizens’ collective identity. To help and assist the qualification of the Regional Public Administration by providing support to governmental and private agencies, assuring the accessibility and preservation of its archival records. To be mentioned and seen as a reference by the archive professionals through its practices of excellence.
Mission
To collect, preserve, and increase the value of the archival and bibliographical heritage considered vital for history and culture which identifies a multiple and collective memory, as being a historical public archive in Madeira.
Also as a regional public record keeper and coordinator, ARM claims to promote quality in local public archives supervising their ability to produce demonstrative records and information that reflect their own activities, becoming able to perfect administrative procedures and apt to contribute for a modern and clear public administration.
To democratize and simplify the public’s accessibility to historical records nullifying cultural, social and geographical frontiers and establishing the values of citizenship instead. To be documented as a knowledge centre for the history and culture of Madeira and also to stimulate all renewed scientific investigation practices.
Values
Quality - Quality implies the improvement of technical and human resources as well as the valuation of its professional collaborators. This is understood as the key for effectiveness before costumers’ requirements and demands.
Accessibility - The diffusion of the regional archival heritage depends on reaching the public through strategies that permit the access to historical information, respecting not only one’s privacy but also fulfilling all the legal documental aspects implied in this process.
Efficiency – ARM shall constantly care about efficiency, simplicity and practical means to offer effective and fast response to its costumers.
Initiative – The professional attitude shall favour initiative, creativity and dynamism in various aspects, such as the contact with society, the mission’s practice in order to elevate the institutional quality patterns.
Innovation - Consists on improving continuously and on keeping itself integrated in the actual transformational cultural environment brought by the information era which conferred dynamics to archive administration.
Compromise - Being aware of the variety of costumers, ARM must keep a professional attitude based on responsibility and compromise to achieve efficient internal and external relationships.
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