 committees archives unit committees archives unit all about committees archives unit  ours is a mission to create a conducive environment at ug to facilitate the teaching learning process to provide support to all students and departments in the realisation of this mission  dr c nigel gravesande registrar university of guyana the committee archives unit forms the major pillar for the smooth processing of meetings for policy formulation governance academic and budgetary decision making of the university of guyana the unit also handles the safekeeping of all official institutional records of the university our functions secretarial duties provide secretarial duties to all statutory committees and subcommittees instituted by the council academic board or the finance and general purposes committee record security ensure that all institutional records are secured for future retrieval record preservation  include the capacity to select preserve and make available for administrative or research purposes all institutional records of the university this new dispensation will include archival functions along with the creation of an electronic records management system policies for retention and discard of records databs entry and indexing manuals webmaster fri 1192018 2143  