The Archivist’s Profession in Algeria between Legal and Moral Responsibility

Résumé

This study aims to highlight on the archivist’s profession in Algeria and display the laws that adjust the practise of profession as well the results that are got from violating these laws through the Penal Code. As the study purposes to review the archivist’s profession ethics. The study reached out to the three principles results, which are; the archivist’s profession is subjecting to the Public Employment Law and the law relating to archive. Furthermore, the archivist is each administration assistant responsible for managing and preserving documents, and the archivist is always subjecting completely in the Charter of Professional Ethics as defined by the International Council on archive in the absence of an Algerian charter