Public programming is a distinct component of archival professional practice, although it has not always been so. Academic public programming is an even relatively newer phenomenon, but is gaining momentum as university and college archives seek to align themselves with an emerging engagement-based instructional paradigm that now widely informs academia. Postmodern insights have challenged archivists to reconsider the traditional view of records as static objects, frozen in perpetuity, and instead understand them as part of a never ending dynamic process encompassing multiple narratives and meanings. Academic archives in particular have begun exploring ways in which they might engage students in a new learning environment - through a new type of public programming that emphasizes the archivists’ unique role in knowledge creation. Academic archivists have a unique opportunity to insert archives into the curriculum and facilitate student engagement and inquiry, while supporting the academic mission of their parent institution. This thesis will explore ways to insert university archives more fully into the teaching function of the university. The thesis will conceptualize how university archives could be included in an interdisciplinary program offered by such archives, or in conjunction with other departments and faculties, that is designed to enhance student learning through the development of critical thinking skills and knowledge creation.

Public programming is a distinct component of archival professional practice, although it has not always been so. Academic public programming is an even relatively newer phenomenon, but is gaining momentum as university and college archives seek to align themselves with an emerging engagement-based instructional paradigm that now widely informs academia. Postmodern insights have challenged archivists to reconsider the traditional view of records as static objects, frozen in perpetuity, and instead understand them as part of a never ending dynamic process encompassing multiple narratives and meanings. Academic archives in particular have begun exploring ways in which they might engage students in a new learning environment - through a new type of public programming that emphasizes the archivists’ unique role in knowledge creation. Academic archivists have a unique opportunity to insert archives into the curriculum and facilitate student engagement and inquiry, while supporting the academic mission of their parent institution. This thesis will explore ways to insert university archives more fully into the teaching function of the university. The thesis will conceptualize how university archives could be included in an interdisciplinary program offered by such archives, or in conjunction with other departments and faculties, that is designed to enhance student learning through the development of critical thinking skills and knowledge creation.

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A organização e tratamento da informação nos arquivos é um processo essencial na prática arquivística, que comporta um conjunto de atividades encadeadas para propiciar pesquisas e acesso aos documentos nela abrigados. O objetivo inicial da presente pesquisa foi compreender as teorias e métodos subjacentes a esse conjunto de processos. A hipótese inicial foi a de observar as teorias e práticas arquivísticas de organizar e tratar documentos e apontar suas interações com a Ciência da Informação. A pesquisa, de natureza qualitativa, utilizou o método hipotético dedutivo como ponto de partida, tendo como objeto empírico um corpus de artigos científicos da área da arquivística, do período de 2000-2015. Foi possível identificar nesse corpus as mudanças propostas para a realização de atividades de classificação, indexação, descrição arquivística, normalização e diplomática, ao longo desse período. Ao final, foi possível constatar que a arquivística é uma disciplina com fundamentos teóricos e práticos sedimentados, conta com um conjunto de métodos, procedimento e instrumentos específicos para organizar e tratar a informação. Foi possível identificar conceitos comuns entre a Ciência da Informação e a Arquivística, tais como classificação, análise de informação e indexação, entre outros. No entanto, não há ligação teórica ou prática explícita entre as duas áreas, visto que esses conceitos, na arquivística, são utilizados atrelados aos princípios arquivísticos da proveniência, da ordem original e do ciclo de vida dos documentos. Com base nesses princípios, a arquivística responde adequadamente, aos problemas contemporâneos relacionados ao complexo problema da autenticidade dos documentos digitais. Trata-se, portanto, de uma área em contínuo desenvolvimento, que constrói teorias, métodos e procedimentos próprios que respondem satisfatoriamente às demandas sociais de busca e acesso a informações para garantir os direitos dos cidadãos e a gestão de políticas públicas. / The organization and information processing in archives is an essential process in archival practices and includes a set of linked activities to facilitate the search and access to documents. The initial objective of this research was to understand the fundamental theories and methods that support this process. The initial hypothesis was to explore the relations of the archival practices of document processint and organization to point out their interactions with Information Science. This research has qualitative approach, used the hypothetical deductive method as a starting point and the content analysis of a corpus of scientific articles presented in serials dedicated to archival sciences, published in 2000-2015. It was possible to identify common concepts used in Archival science and Information Science, such as classification, analysis and indexing, but this does not denote an explicit theoretical and practical connection between the two domains, since these concepts are used in the archival science coupled with the archival principles of provenance, original order and the document life cycle. Based in these principles, the Archival Science present solutions, to the contemporary questions as the complex problems related to the authenticity of digital documents. It was possible to identify the changes that occurred in the activities of classification, indexing, archival description, normalization and diplomatics throughout this period. Archival Science is a domain that develops reflecting and constructing specific theories, methods and procedures to promote satisfactory responses to social demands of access to information to the citizens and to the management of public policies.

Arrangement is an important archival activity that precedes other important archival activities including description and access. Its objective is to identify the external and internal structures of a fonds. However, despite its importance, archivists have had difficulty establishing a standard method of arrangement that fully achieves its objective. This study views arrangement as a form of methodology bridging archival theory and practice. Arrangement must therefore be in accordance with archival theory yet be applicable in practical terms. The study first establishes the terms of analysis in regards to archival theory, and, in particular, the concept of the fonds. Difficulties in the practice of arrangement are then examined. These difficulties include (1) identifying the levels of arrangement, (2) identifying when an entity has sufficient autonomy to create a fonds, (3) identifying the provenance of record series that have been in the custody of many agencies, and (4) dealing with the effects that changes to the external structure of a fonds have on record series. The main methods of arrangement, that have been utilized throughout the archival world in the last 50 years, including the record group, fonds method and series system, are then assessed to determine how closely each aligns with archival theory and how well they perform in practical terms. A method of arrangement is then devised using the basic attributes of both the fonds and series system methods. The Department of the Provincial Secretary, of British Columbia, is the subject of a case study to confirm the validity of the methodology. The study first examines the external structure of the Department through the concepts of function, competence and organizational structure. It then studies the external structure through the concepts of functional series and documentary series. The study concludes by examining some of the implications of the method for various aspects of archival practice. / Arts, Faculty of / Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS), School of / Graduate

Researchers have referred to Vladimir Putin as a “History man”. It has been confirmed that he takes a great personal interest in history and frequently speaks about the topic. However, previous research has not taken account for how Putin gives his statements about history additional authority. One way in which he does this is by referring to archives and archival documents, thus giving his statements about history an additional aura of “truthfulness”. This essay aims to partially fill the gap in previous research by examining Putin’s statements about history and archives from a perspective of archival science by asking the following research questions: “How does Putin view archives and archival records?”, “What can archives be used for and what characteristics are they given by Putin?”. The theoretical and methodological basis for this essay is discourse analysis and Jörn Rüsen’s typology of historical narratives. By examining the discourses Vladimir Putin expresses and reproduces about archives insight has been gained into the way in which a prominent politician uses archives, how he views their function in society and what their characteristics are. As Vladimir Putin seemingly always speaks about archives in relation to history the latter could not be ignored, which is why Rüsens’ typology was used to examine what kind of historical narrative Putin expresses when speaking about archives. The analysis in this essay shows that Vladimir Putin has a strong belief in archives as mirrors of the past. According to the Russian President archives portray a completely accurate and unquestionable account for how history has unfolded. He dismisses any historical narrative that is not based on archival documents as politicized speculation. In Putin’s eyes archives also play a central role in preserving a common, national heritage for the entire Russian nation as a whole.

With the onset of the information age, archivists are more frequently placed in professional situations where they must work with automated systems to manage the records in their custody. They must acquire new skills to use this technology, including system analysis, system planning, and the principles of computer operation. An area that is frequently neglected, however, is that of developing and maintaining in-house project documentation for systems once equipment is in place and implementation has begun. This oversight leads to poor training strategies, inconsistencies in input and output, and information loss when personnel changes occur. Project documentation is the group of records that describe the system the archivist creates. It is a communications tool, developed by the project manager as a reference document for administrative and operations purposes, and to train users. The documentation guidelines assembled in this text were developed by the author while implementing automated systems over a six-year period. They are arranged in five groups. SCOPE discusses ways to introduce the user to the project, the equipment, and to the concept of the project manual. SYSTEM ORIENTATION contains strategies for more detailed instruction on the equipment. INPUT shows how to describe the data base design and instruct the user on entering data. OUTPUT provides a format for profiling and generating reports. And OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE outlines the tools the project manager needs to maintain the system.

Keynote address delivered at the Archives Association of British Columbia in May 1998.

本研究旨在藉由行銷組合的7P理論（產品、價格、通路、推廣、人員、實體證據及過程）檢視國內檔案典藏機構推廣服務情形。本研究採用文獻分析法及深度訪談法蒐集研究資料。訪談對象以立意抽樣有辦理檔案推廣活動經驗並具有特色館藏之檔案典藏機構進行受訪，計訪談8個檔案典藏機構。本研究歸納結論如下： 一、檔案行銷組合的產品策略，以實體資源與虛擬資源為主。 二、價格策略以館藏複製及加值授權為主。 三、通路策略以實體通路為主，網路通路為輔。 四、推廣策略以檔案展覽活動為主。 五、人員策略須注重服務人員教育訓練。 六、實體證據策略須提供檔案行銷推廣空間。 七、過程策略以服務流程之便利化與標準化為目標。 根據研究結果，提出建議事項： 一、設立專門負責行銷活動之部門或人員。 二、產品加值授權與開發文創商品。 三、加強網路通路之應用。 四、結合推廣活動與教育之應用。 五、加強服務人員行銷相關的專業能力。 六、提供行銷推廣空間。 七、全面開放資料庫線上閱覽。 / This study is mainly on investigating the Archival Promotion Services in the archival institutions in Taiwan through 7P marketing mix (Product, Price, Place, Promotion, People, Physical evidence and Process). Literature analysis and depth interviews were used in this research for gathering data. Depth interviews were investigated 8 experienced archival institutions with promotion activities and characteristic collection. The results of the research are concluded below: 1.Archival product strategy is mainly based on the physical and virtual resources. 2.Archival price strategy is mainly based on duplicate and authorization. 3.Archival place strategy relies mainly on physical access supplemented by internet access. 4.Archival promotion strategy is mainly based on exhibition activities. 5.Archival people strategy shall provide educational training. 6.Archival physical evidence strategy shall provide promotion space. 7.Archival process strategy is mainly based on facilitation and standardization of service. Recommendations: 1.To set up the department or personnel responsible for the marketing. 2.To develop the value-added authorization of product. 3.To strengthen the application of internet access. 4.To connect promotion activities to education. 5.To intensify the professional ability related marketing. 6.To provide promotion space. 7.To provide reading online database fully.