(Abstract)
The foundation of public administration is records, and the authority of local governments is established by securing the authority to produce, collect, preserve and access records.
In the 1990s, Korea began to be aware of the importance of records along with the growth of democracy and civil society, and in 1999, Korean government enacted the Act on the Management of Records in Public Facilities to produce and register records.
Since then, through the revision of the Act in 2006, the Act on ?the Management of Records in Public institution? was wholly amended into the ?Public Records Management Act?, which changed a lot about functions and roles of the former act.
The revised act mandates to establish a local archive in metropolitan cities or provinces in order to efficiently manage local records and set up a management system.
According to the Act, there are 17 metropolitan governments subject to legal obligation of a local archive installation, but most of them are not planning for the establishment of local archives except Seoul and Gyeongsangnam-do in 2018.
Daegu installs and operates a records center, but it has not developed a specific plan for its own archive.

In this context, this study were conducted as follows:

First, this study aims to present a plan to establish a local archive in Daegu in order to secure public rights as well as transparency and accountability of public administration.
Second. this study investigated the institutes which have produced and managed the local record of Daegu.
Third, this study suggests a guide for the local archive of Daegu to solve the lack of record storage and the problems of facility of Daegu
Therefore, this study conducted a survey of 12 record centers among the 14 record centers. These are the institutes that Daegu local archive will have managed, The current status of record management was analyzed and records more than 30 years in the institutes were investigated.
The findings of this study are as follows:

First, the institutional basis has not yet been established due to lack of budget or cooperation from the central government although the Act obligated the establishment of a local archive.
Second, the lack of deoxidation and disinfection equipment of the record centers and the lack of space in the repository were identified.
Third, this study investigated the preservation demand of local archive and suggested the adequate space for long term preservation. It also suggested the equipment and elements of the work space for Daegu local archive.
Fourth, a personnel plan and an organizational chart for Daegu local archive were proposed. They are based on a model for minimum functions of a local archive.
Fifth, ordinance for the local archive of Daegu was proposed. It is composed of essential factors based on ordinance of the Seoul Archive and the Gyeongsangnam-do Archive.
Establishment of a local archive is a key factor for managing public records systematically and comprehensively. A local archive and an integrated management system, manage and preserve records more effectively than individual record centers.
The local archive can be a solution for problems of capacity and space that individual record centers may face in the future. Especially, metropolitan level of cities and provinces should set up local archives and it will be a foundation to support the expertise and responsibility of the local archive management.