The Indre Departmental Archives are a service of the Departmental Council. Their main mission, like all the departmental archives, is to collect, classify, conserve and communicate the archives within their department. The oldest preserved document dates from around the year 1000 and comes from the collection of the Saint-Laurian de Vatan chapter, which was sequestered at the time of the Revolution; the most recent documents are only a few years old. From the parchment charter to the digital database, the competences of the Departmental Archives cover archives, a term whose broad definition encompasses paper documents as well as electronic and audiovisual documents, photographs or models, since it covers"all documents, including data, whatever their date, place of storage, form and medium, produced or received by any natural or legal person and by any public or private service or organisation in the exercise of its activit" (Heritage Code, art. L211-1). Public archives include documents resulting from the activity of the State, local authorities, public establishments and other legal persons under public law; documents resulting from the management of a public service or the exercise of a public service mission by persons under private law; minutes and registers of public or ministerial officers and registers of notarised civil solidarity pact agreements Private archives are made up of all documents that do not fall into the category of public archives.