Ústredný archív SAV v súčasnej dobe spravuje vyše 80 osobných fondov vedcov. Pre tvorbu metodických postupov na spracovávanie osobných fondov boli pre náš archív dôležité konferencie zástupcov archívov akadémií vied socialistických krajín. Na tretej takejto konferencii, ktorá sa uskutočnila 29. júna až 07. júla 1971 v Berlíne vystúpil Zygmunt Kolankowski z archívu Poľskej akadémie vied s príspevkom o hraniciach archívnej pozostalosti. Ten sa stal základom, na ktorom je s malými úpravami postavená metodika spracovávania osobných fondov v ÚA SAV dodnes. Bol obsahovo definovaný pojem osobný fond, jeho časové a vecné ohraničenie a zavedený spôsob akvizície osobných fondov., The Central Archive of the Slovak Academy of Sciences currently holds more than 80 personal records of scientists. For the creation of personal records processing practices we found important conferences of representatives of archives of socialist academies. At a third such conference held between 29th June and 7th July 1971 in Berlin, the Polish archivist Zygmunt Kolankowski read a paper on the personal records, which is still the basis of the methodology for processing personal records in the Central Archive of the SAS with some modifications. It defined the terms personal records and their time and material definition and introduced methods for acquisition of personal records. A base structure for processing the records was soon established. It comprises eight groups of documents: I. Documents about scientific activities, II. Documents about positions, III. Biographical documents, IV. Correspondence, V. Photography, VI. Documents about the creator of the collection, VII. Other authors’ works, VIII. Family papers. The inner arrangement of these groups also has an established though not unchangeable structure. The content of a personal record poses a challenge. The Central Archive has not the capacity for holding large personal libraries together with the documentation. In some cases we extract from an originally personal record documents that become part of a collection of the creator’s workplace or completely new archive documents are or their fragments are detached. A standard procedure was not applied to the family documents. In most cases they remain in the collections as group VIII but there have been cases where the quantity and quality of the documents of a family member were so important that a separate personal record was created. Translated by Paul Sinclair, and Překlad resumé: Paul Sinclair