Pd deputies: staffing shortages in archives is an unmissable problem

A serious situation of staff shortages in state archives. This is what five Pd deputies Flavia Piccoli Nardelli (chairwoman of the culture committee in the House in the past legislature), Patrizia Prestipino, Lucia Ciampi, Rosa Maria Giorgi and Andrea Rossi photograph in a parliamentary question filed on August 7. “The shortage of personnel in the archival administration employed in the General Directorate for Archives, the Central Institute for Archives, the State Archives, the Central State Archives, the Archival and Bibliographic Superintendencies and other state administrations,” the five parliamentarians point out, "represents a problem that can no longer be put off, to the point of jeopardizing the provision of a public service recognized as ’essential’ in ensuring the protection, enjoyment and enhancement of the national archival heritage;

According to Piccoli Nardelli and colleagues, problems also stem from leave and early retirements for “quota 100: ”the hiring of 190 State Archival Officers, between February and September 2018, as part of the last ministerial competition,“ they point out, ”was preceded and accompanied by the leave of numerous officials belonging who entered service between 1979 and 1984; early retirement was lastly partially accelerated by quota 100, which, in 2019 alone, has already caused the early exit from the civil service of about 90 thousand employees." So there are also difficulties in the day-to-day for state archives: “the performance of ordinary activities in the archival administration is made even more difficult by the serious shortage of area II staff to support the daily activities of archivist officials who, already reduced in number, find themselves, in addition to supporting an ever-increasing amount of work, having to cope with activities that are the responsibility of other professionals.”

The five deputies are therefore addressing the Minister of Cultural Heritage, Dario Franceschini, to ask whether the MiBACT intends “to take steps to resort to sharing the rankings of local authorities and other public administrations, by the expiration of the same scheduled for September 30, in order to proceed quickly to the recruitment of area II staff (with particular reference to the professional figures of technical operator; technical assistant; computer assistant) in the ranks of the state archival administration, also following a nationwide reconnaissance of the rankings, to be carried out in consultation with the Civil Service Department of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.”

Pd deputies: staffing shortages in archives is an unmissable problem

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