For his part, the Director General of the National Library Department affirmed that electronic archiving contributes to ensuring the authenticity and integrity of documents, accelerating their retrieval, enhancing their security, and ensuring sustainable access to them. He noted that it is not limited to preserving the past, but represents a qualitative leap in utilizing knowledge and building the future.
He pointed to the importance of these courses in enhancing national capabilities, consolidating modern professional practices, and keeping pace with digital transformation requirements, in a way that supports institutional development efforts.
The course included specialized topics in library science, cataloging, modern records management, digital transformation strategies in archiving, bibliographic description of archival materials, philately, preserving national memory, and the sterilization and classification of files, in addition to methods for restoring and preserving manuscripts and documents.
The course aimed to develop professional skills in document management, records, and electronic archiving, and to upgrade methods for preserving, organizing, and making documents available, in line with the rapid developments in digital transformation technologies.
At the conclusion of the course, the Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for Administration and Human Resources distributed certificates to the participants, in the presence of the Director of the Royal Jordanian Hashemite Documentation Center, the Director of the Center for Documents and Manuscripts and Levant Studies at the University of Jordan, as well as the Director of Military Media and the Director General of the National Library Department.
