The Commonwealth Central Archives is a constituent organisation of the Ministry of Culture.
| Commonwealth Central Archives | |
|---|---|
| Establishment of the Ministry of Culture | |
| Attached | Bureau of Records and Correspondence |
| Employees | 500 |
| Headquarters | Commonwealth Central Archives, Mira |
| Service | Central Records Service |
The Commonwealth Central Archives (also just Archives) is a corporation of the Bureau of Records and Correspondence and is the central documents store, management and database organisation of Vekllei. The Archives serves as the definitive repository for historically significant documents and provides research access to scholars, government officials and the public.
The Archives document the general disposition, welfare, culture and demography of the people of the Commonwealth. This includes political attitudes towards the Commonwealth itself, as well as how decisions made by other ministries impact public opinion.
It is centralised across several climate-controlled storage facilities, operates specialised preservation laboratories, and provides archival services to government departments. It also manages optical preservation archives and coordinates with international archival institutions.
Historical Collections
245Historical records, artefacts and folk material.
Government Records Section
110Records of the executive, legislature and judiciary.
Federal Depository
The central archive at Oslola, run jointly with the National Library.
Archive Indies
Regional archive at Barbados.
Archive Afrique
Regional archive at Praia.
Federal Vault
Store of computer copies of the archives at Helvasia.
Reading Rooms
Reading rooms and research help for scholars and the public.
Federal Document Laboratory
Repair of damaged and fragile documents, in the Lola borough of Oslola.
Electric Archives Laboratory
Electronic copying of archive material.
Slavery Oral History Programme
Recorded interviews and testimony, held with the Atlantic History Federation.
Carib & Lucayan Oral History Programme
Carib and Arawak oral history, held with the Atlantic History Federation.
Brimstone Hill Fortress
Eighteenth-century British fortress at Kitts, now a regional archive and search room.