GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/31 October) — Processing birth certificates and other related documents here is now much easier and faster with the completion of the Office of the Local Civil Registrar’s (LCR) computerization program. He said the initiative involved the installation of the Philippine Civil Registry Information System at the city LCR office. The mayor said the installed LCR system mainly covers computerized data-banking, archiving and document retrieval. Rivera said the city LCR’s archives are mainly paper files that are kept in shelves at its storage room, rendering data banking and retrieval quite difficult. Jen Gabayeron, marriage division head of the city LCR, said they already lack enough spaces at their office for the storage of their archives.