Placed under the authority of the President of the Departmental Council since decentralisation (1st January 1986), the Departmental Archives are responsible for : - Collecting: ensure that public archives are deposited, i.e. documents resulting from the activities of the State, local authorities, companies and public establishments, as well as notaries. Collect deposits from municipalities with fewer than 2,000 inhabitants. Encourage donations and deposits of private archives from individuals, families, associations or companies. - Classify: making archives accessible to the public by sorting and classifying them and producing finding aids (inventories, directories, files, databases). - Preserve: to ensure the physical preservation of archives, a prestigious and irreplaceable heritage, in the best possible conditions. To this end, the Archives have digitisation, photography and restoration workshops and have documents digitised by external service providers. - Communicating: to make the archival heritage accessible to as many people as possible... to administrative departments that regularly consult their files, to private individuals to justify their rights, to researchers for their historical work, to genealogists and local history enthusiasts who discover their roots there, to young people through the Educational Service, to the general public through conferences, symposia, publications or exhibitions...