Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Available also from UMI Company.

Thesis (A.M.L.S.)--University of Michigan, 1961. Cf. Library literature, 1961-1963, p. 781. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [61]-63).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas, Austin. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 282-317). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Michigan, 1995. / Bibliography: leaves 241-256.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Michigan, 1995. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Bibliography: leaves 241-256.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 2005. / Vita. Thesis advisor: William Keach. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-137). Also available online.

O crescente uso das tecnologias de informação e comunicação a partir dos anos oitenta impulsionou no cenário arquivístico novas discussões em torno das questões de preservação e acesso aos arquivos, dentre outras. Neste contexto, a comunidade arquivística investiu no desenvolvimento de padrões e modelos para a descrição arquivística apresentando dentre os objetivos centrais a possibilidade de intercâmbio entre os arquivos e a ampliação do uso dos acervos. Contudo, este processo modelizador destituiu da descrição arquivística sua natureza de pesquisa, na medida em que não foi criado o devido espaço para a discussão teórico-metodológica pertinente a sua natureza. O problema atinge os arquivos em geral. Em nosso trabalho vamos analisar o impacto deste efeito modelizador e suas implicações no âmbito dos arquivos pessoais, uma vez que suas características mais específicas exigem do arquivista um trabalho de pesquisa detalhado em busca da reconstrução dos vínculos arquivísticos. / The increasing use of information and communication technologies since the 1980s has given an impulse to new discussions in the archival science field concerning digital preservation and access to archives, among other themes. In this context the community of archivists developed standards and models for archival description declaring as some of its aims the encouragement of the interchange between archives and the possibility of increasing the use of archive collections. However, this modeling process in fact deprived archival description of its research nature since it did not include or address the theoretical and methodological discussion pertinent to its own nature. This problem exists in all archives. In our work we will analise the impact of this modeling effect and its implications for personal archives, since they present more specific characteristics that demand from the archivist a more detailed research approach to reconstruct the archival bond.

O crescente uso das tecnologias de informação e comunicação a partir dos anos oitenta impulsionou no cenário arquivístico novas discussões em torno das questões de preservação e acesso aos arquivos, dentre outras. Neste contexto, a comunidade arquivística investiu no desenvolvimento de padrões e modelos para a descrição arquivística apresentando dentre os objetivos centrais a possibilidade de intercâmbio entre os arquivos e a ampliação do uso dos acervos. Contudo, este processo modelizador destituiu da descrição arquivística sua natureza de pesquisa, na medida em que não foi criado o devido espaço para a discussão teórico-metodológica pertinente a sua natureza. O problema atinge os arquivos em geral. Em nosso trabalho vamos analisar o impacto deste efeito modelizador e suas implicações no âmbito dos arquivos pessoais, uma vez que suas características mais específicas exigem do arquivista um trabalho de pesquisa detalhado em busca da reconstrução dos vínculos arquivísticos. / The increasing use of information and communication technologies since the 1980s has given an impulse to new discussions in the archival science field concerning digital preservation and access to archives, among other themes. In this context the community of archivists developed standards and models for archival description declaring as some of its aims the encouragement of the interchange between archives and the possibility of increasing the use of archive collections. However, this modeling process in fact deprived archival description of its research nature since it did not include or address the theoretical and methodological discussion pertinent to its own nature. This problem exists in all archives. In our work we will analise the impact of this modeling effect and its implications for personal archives, since they present more specific characteristics that demand from the archivist a more detailed research approach to reconstruct the archival bond.

This thesis is an inquiry into the nature of current provincial and territorial archival legislation in Canada. It provides an analysis of archival legislation as a form of written communication and argues that the legislation suffers from the same deficiencies inherent in other forms of communication as a result of external social influences on its meaning. Chapter one therefore traces the evolution of the legislation from 1790 to the present and shows how the meaning of current legislative texts emerged neither from objective legal considerations nor archival theory, but as an ad hoc response to a variety of social influences. The remaining chapters are based on a detailed content analysis of the three main components of current provincial and territorial archival legislation: provisions establishing definitions of key terms, provisions establishing the scope and authority of administrative structures for archival programmes and provisions establishing programme elements. They elaborate on the argument advanced in chapter one that the social production of meaning, arising from the manner in which current provincial and territorial archival legislation has developed, adversely affects its ability to promote the preservation of documents in two ways. First, this process of development has meant that wording in legislative texts carries overtones of outdated attitudes and assumptions about archives. Second, it has led to inconsistency, conflict, vagueness and ambiguity in the meaning of the texts. These chapters also put forth prescriptive ideas regarding how the adverse affects of social influences on the meaning of current provincial and territorial archival legislation might be overcome. / Arts, Faculty of / Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS), School of / Graduate

Abstract The archival community worldwide faces challenges posed by the advent of digital communication, shifting understandings of archives prompted by a new emphasis on the power of means of communication and archives to shape knowledge, and fundamental debates that have followed over how archives should be run. Archivists from different parts of the world have started to revamp archival concepts, learn new skills, and acquire the specialized knowledge through graduate level education (master’s and doctoral degrees) necessary to address these challenges. Such specialized university degree programs in archival studies are fairly new phenomena. Professional education for archivists was initially offered in many countries by archives themselves to their new staff members and through conferences held by archival associations. Some then followed with one-year graduate diploma programs that eventually developed into a full master’s degree. In Canada, the Association of Canadian Archivists first established guidelines for master’s degree programs for educating archivists in 1976. The first master’s program in Archival Studies offered in North America was launched in 1981 by the University of British Columbia. In the United States, the first guidelines for the development of a graduate program in Archival Studies came out in 1993. In Asia, by the late 1950s courses in archives were offered in several countries such as Vietnam, Taiwan, and the Philippines, but not as a specialized degree program. In the Philippines, archival courses are only being offered as elective courses within library and information studies programs. There is, thus, a major gap in the programs of archival education in the Philippines. Certain factors that are unique to the Philippine archival profession further increase the existing common challenges facing archivists across the world and heighten the need for a specialized master’s degree in Archival Studies. These factors include: inadequate access to records or archives that document the country’s rich cultural and historical heritage, which makes research on the richness of Philippine history and culture difficult; the natural environment of the Philippines that makes it disaster prone requires special education in the care and management of the archives; and the relative youth of the archival profession in the country and thus limited number of properly educated professional archivists. This thesis discusses these challenges and how they can be addressed through a graduate program in Archival Studies. Lastly, the thesis offers a rationale and proposal for a master’s program in Archival Studies at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of the Philippines. / May 2017