Andrew Bigony elected as President of SCPRA
January 12, 2010
COLUMBIA, SC – January 12, 2010 – Andrew Bigony was elected as the President of the South Carolina Public Records Association (SCPRA). The South Carolina Public Records Association was organized as a means to provide a network of people for the advancement and improvement of records and information management in the public sector.
The goals of the SCPRA are as follows:
- To increase the awareness of the ethical aspects of records and information management.
- To establish sound principles of records management and to encourage effective records management practices.
- To provide educational and training activities in the creation, use, disposal, management, preservation and conservation of records.
- To disseminate information appropriate to the advancement of records and information management.
- To assist public records managers with solutions to problems, concerns and technological advances.
To encourage active participation in legislative process which impact on Public Records Managers.
Andrew Bigony is currently the Records Manager for the County of Lexington where he helps to maintains County documents for the County of Lexington, SC. He has been in this position since January 2007.
Prior to coming to work for Lexington, Mr. Bigony was employed with the University of South Carolina Registrars office where he worked as the Records Center Supervisor from August 1986 to January 2007. Prior to working for the University of South Carolina Mr. Bigony worked at the Department of Archives and History from June 1978 to August 1986 first as a Clerk I in the warehouse where he was responsible for the storage of over 30,000 cubic feet of State and Local Government documents and then as a Microfilm Technician I for the County Records Department where he traveled out into the various counties of South Carolina and filmed their County documents and then finally as a Quality Control Technician where his responsibilities were to process and duplicate microfilm for various State Agencies and County Departments and provided quality assurance as well.
