The archival work of the school started from 1953. The source of the early archives is partly the capital construction drawings of the school building and the documents and materials formed in the school management activities, and the other part is the materials collected from some veteran cadres, such as the minutes of the school board meeting in the early days of the school establishment, physical objects, etc. In the early 1960s, in order to strengthen the collection, arrangement and management of official files, Changchun launched the "Official Files Going Home Campaign", organized special personnel to clean up and identify the files stored in various departments and rooms of the school, and filed a large number of documents and materials with preservation value. 1965, the school formally established the archives room, which belongs to the principal's office and is a department-level organizational system. The main task of the archives room is to collect and sort out the documents and materials formed by various departments of the school in their functional activities. During the "Cultural Revolution", school archival work was in a state of stagnation, and most of the archival materials in this period were later sorted and filed.

1978, file reorganization. In the same year, according to the spirit of Changchun Archives Bureau on the establishment of school teaching files, the school collected students' school records, school records, grades cards, rosters, etc. from the student affairs office, the academic affairs office and other departments to the archives for re-classification and unified management. The classification method of archives in this period is to classify and shelve by year.

198 1 Jilin provincial archives bureau issued the notice on printing and distributing the provisions on the work of scientific and technological archives. According to this spirit, the school began to establish scientific and technological archives in the scientific research department. There are eight categories of scientific and technological archives collection, namely, teaching, scientific research, infrastructure, equipment, scientific and technological foreign affairs, publishing, products, audio-visual education and so on. Including students' graduation thesis, degree defense materials and teaching materials; Monographs, translations, academic papers above the discipline level; Appraisal materials of scientific research projects at or above the provincial or ministerial level; Random materials of instruments and equipment of more than 20,000 yuan; Complete sets of drawings and written materials for capital construction; It also includes products, foreign affairs, publications and so on. The classification adopts the method of "category-organization-serial number" stipulated by the State Education Commission.

At the end of 1982, in order to strengthen the comprehensive management of school archives, the school decided to merge the scientific and technological archives work of the school scientific research department with the school-run archives room, and set up the school comprehensive archives room, which is still under the principal's office to comprehensively manage the school archives work.

1985 according to the spirit of document No.35 issued by the Ministry of Finance and the National Archives Bureau, accounting file management is set up in the comprehensive archives room. The comprehensive archives room and the Finance Department * * * organize personnel to identify and clean up the accounting data accumulated by various departments of the school, including the Finance Department, and archive all the archived data. Thus, the centralized and unified management of accounting files of all financial management departments of the school (including financial departments, grassroots independent accounting units and various economic entities) has been realized. 1990 65438+ 10, the school comprehensive archives became a deputy division-level organization.

1in April 1995, the president's office decided to establish an archives. (Deputy division level organizational system, subordinate to the principal's office)

From 65438 to 0999, the internal management system of the school was reformed. According to the relevant provisions in the "Institutional Reform Plan of Northeast Normal University", the original school-run comprehensive archives, personnel archives, student offices and postgraduate archives were merged to form the archives of Northeast Normal University, which is a division-level organizational system. The newly established archives belong to schools and institutions and are directly led by the principal. There are three business departments (department-level institutions): collection and guidance department, personnel archives department and technical service department. There are two directors and deputy directors. The quota of the whole museum is 1 1 person. Its main functions are: collecting, sorting out, processing, cataloging, counting, using and compiling more than ten kinds of comprehensive files of the whole school, such as party and mass, administration, teaching, scientific research, infrastructure, equipment, foreign affairs, publishing, products, finance, audio-visual and materials, as well as collecting, keeping, consulting and forwarding staff files and student files.