Professional development and exchange
Government Records Service (GRS) workforce comprises officers from the Archivist, Curator, Executive Officer and Analyst/Programmer grades that support archives and records management related work in the Government. To meet the challenge in the paradigm shift, GRS endeavours to create a diverse and skilled workforce.
We recognise the value and importance of providing ongoing professional development training to our staff and establishing closer professional network and partnership with our local, Mainland and overseas counterparts.
The professional and development training programme offers the opportunity for GRS officers to acquire skills and competencies through a variety of ways, such as attending academic programmes, task and skilled oriented courses organised by professional institutions, GRS's in house training programmes and career development training programmes.
To foster a closer partnership with other archives, GRS has exchanged professional knowledge and experience on archives and records management with Mainland, overseas and local archives over the years through attending conferences and duty visits. We have also actively participated in Mainland, overseas and local professional organisations-
- International Council on Archives (ICA)
- East Asian Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives (EASTICA)
- The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC)
- The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC)
GRS Director led a delegation of four Archivist grade officers visited the Guangzhou Archives, the School of Information Management of the Sun Yat-sen University, the University Archives of Sun Yat-sen University, the Liwan District Archives of Guangzhou and the Guangdong Provincial Archives in Febuary 2025 to discuss potential collaboration in future, and exchange knowledge and experience in archives management.
GRS Director led a delegation of three Archivist grade officers attended 2024 EASTICA Seminar in Tokyo, Japan from 11 to 13 November 2024. The theme of the Seminar was “Toward a New Era of Archives: Challenges and Possibilities”. GRS Director attended the Executive Board Meeting of EASTICA prior to the Seminar. All GRS representatives participated in the professional visits to a couple of cultural institutions after the Seminar.
A delegation comprising 14 officers from GRS visited the North Division of Shenzhen Library (NDSL) in January 2024 as part of a duty visit for the Project of Building of GRS Archives Centre in Caverns.
Among all, GRS is the Executive Member of the EASTICA and actively participated in its General Conferences and seminars in recent years. Below are the territory reports from the GRS for the General Conference and Seminar of EASTICA.
- Territory Report from the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China for the 2024 EASTICA Seminar on 11 – 13 November 2024
- Territory Report from the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China for the 16th General Conference of EASTICA & Seminar on 28 November–1 December 2023
- Territory Report from the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China for the 15th General Conference of EASTICA & Seminar held on 22 – 23 November 2021
- Territory Report from the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China for the 14th General Conference of EASTICA & Seminar held on 25-27 November 2019
- Hong Kong Report from the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China for the International Conference on Safeguarding and Increasing Access to the Documentary Heritage of the Silk Routes of EASTICA held on 6-8 November 2018
- Territory Report from the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China for the 13th General Conference of EASTICA & Seminar held on 6-9 November 2017
- Territory Report from the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China for the 12th General Conference of EASTICA & Seminar held on 13-16 October 2015
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