Thesis (A.M.L.S.)--University of Michigan, 1961. Cf. Library literature, 1961-1963, p. 781. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [61]-63).

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 Michigan, 1995. / Bibliography: leaves 241-256.

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

“Communist Miscellany” is a history of file-keeping and bureaucratic paperwork in Maoist China, examined through the institution of individual dossiers on Chinese subjects known as dang’an. Drawing upon an original sourcebase of deaccessioned archival dossiers, the project explores how the party-state bureaucracy fashioned an archive of Maoist society through scrupulous routines of investigative, clerical, and material labor. In Maoist China, one of the primary responsibilities of local bureaucratic units was to compile detailed individualized dossiers on party members, cadres, workers and students under their jurisdiction. The dossier constituted a master record of a subject's social identity, probing issues of class status, personal background, family relationships, political activities and attitudes. Broadly instituted in the 1950s on the basis of the Soviet model, the stated purpose of the dossier system was to inform staffing decisions for personnel management in the planned economy. However, in the Mao era, the dossier was widely deployed as a surveillance instrument, producing a living archive of “political and historical problems” among the people. For ordinary citizens, materials gathered through the dossier were the basis of crucial class labels and the grounds for political advancement. The paper-bound practices of the dossier informed the generic presentation of identity and evidence while supplying material for everyday political acts. This study of the dossier system engages current debates on bureaucratic culture, social surveillance, and archive in the PRC. A project of immense ambition, the dossier system straddled the imperatives of permanent revolution and socialist state-building to transcribe a record of Chinese society in the Maoist image. The continuous expansion of the dossier system over the Mao era gave rise to elaborate routines of file-keeping and paperwork as well as unexpected consequences of the bureaucratic will to knowledge. The bureaucratic tendency toward overaccumulation and excess in the production of dossier materials exposes the political and epistemic insecurities that drove social surveillance. The practical demands of the dossier system strained the ability of local bureaucrats to keep pace with requests for intelligence, shaping an approach to file-keeping that conceived its own distinctive forms of knowledge and incapacity.

This thesis is about photographic archives. Specifically, it concerns the process of acquisition for family photograph albums as archival texts. It argues that the process of acquisition writes history, and not one sole author. Additionally it argues that the institutional policy of an archive governs this process. Further, it argues that there is a homology between a public and private archive. In this light, it pursues an autobiographical approach, and compares the author's family photograph album with a family photograph album in the McCord Museum of Canadian History.

Thesis (M.I. St.)--University of Toronto, 2007. / Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 46-06, page: 2913.

Orientador: Maria Leandra Bizello / Banca: Wilmara Rodrigues Calderón / Banca: Telma Campanha de Carvalho Madio / Resumo: As normativas arquivísticas sustentam a gestão de documentos em um arquivo universitário, pois estabelecem procedimentos que padronizam a produção e a tramitação de documentos, sendo uma ferramenta norteadora dentro de uma instituição, principalmente em se tratando de um sistema de arquivos. Nesse sentido, fundamentamos o problema desta pesquisa no fato de que as universidades, por tratarem de ambientes complexos, produzem uma grande quantidade de documentos, o que resulta em um constante fluxo documental. Dessa maneira, o estabelecimento de normas visa orientar os procedimentos arquivísticos no intuito de trazer confiabilidade e efetividade nas atividades inerentes ao arquivo da instituição. Nesse sentido, as instruções normativas referentes à gestão de documentos e o Arquivo Universitário são o foco desta investigação. Apresentamos uma discussão em relação à aplicação de normativas relativas à produção e tramitação de documentos no âmbito do Sistema de Arquivos da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (SIARQ/UNICAMP). O objetivo geral deste estudo é discutir e analisar a aplicação das normativas que tratam da produção e tramitação de documentos no SIARQ/UNICAMP. A pesquisa é qualitativa e utilizamos o estudo de caso descritivo, buscando analisar, especificamente, a aplicação das normas arquivísticas referentes à produção e tramitação de documentos em um contexto universitário, destacando a importância e influência de tais normas em uma instituição arquivística. Concluímos que a instituição tem compreensão da importância do estabelecimento de normas que contemplam a produção e a tramitação dos documentos dentro da Universidade; esse posicionamento incentiva o esforço para sua efetivação nos ambientes que constituem a referida instituição. Foi possível demonstrar que o cumprimento de tais normas dependerá da cultura organizacional que as instituições detêm e que, em se ... / Abstract: The archival standards back up the records management in a university, once they settle procedures which standardize documents' production and processing; thus, they are such a tool within an institution, mainly regarding a records/archives system. This way, we establish this study's problem towards the fact that in universities such an amount of documents come out, once they are complex environments, bringing about constant flow of documents. For such reason, standardizing aims at guiding archival procedures for bringing liability and effectiveness upon the institution's records activities. In this sense, the instructions regarding the records management and the University Records are what we are mostly focused on this investigation. We present a discussion about the rules concerning the production and processing of documents in Campinas State University Records/Archives System (SIARQ/UNICAMP). The general objective of this study is fairly discussing and analyzing the rules about the production and processing of documents at SIARQ/UNICAMP. The research is qualitative and we have used the descriptive case study, aiming at specifically analyzing the archival standards application referring to the production and processing of documents within a university context, standing out the importance and influence os such rules in an archival institution. We now conclude that the institution makes out the standardization establishment importance, once it does approach the production and processing of documents throughout the university. Such position backs up the effort for its settling through the environments which constitute the institution. It has been possible to demonstrate such rules happen-making will depend on the organization's culture. As it is a records/archives system, such factor may vary. / Mestre

The claim of archivists to be a scholarly profession is dependent upon their ability to methodically study and understand the meaning of the records in their care. Without such contextual information about the record as the name of its creating agency, the reason for its creation, and the authority by which it was created, archivists and researchers are in a poor position to assess the value and validity of its informational content. Without knowledge of the relationship of the record to other record series, they are likely to overlook additional supporting and/or contradictory documentation and thereby miss a part of the truth they seek. This thesis is directly concerned with the means by which archival sources might be assessed to determine the value of the historical evidence they contain. It proposes a conceptual framework by which study of the original, primary, and secondary meanings of the archival record might be approached. Examples are drawn from close examination of the records of the Corporation of the City of Nanaimo surviving from the period 1875-1904. While acknowledging that extensive study of the significance of documentation might be impossible for archivists in their daily work, this thesis concludes that closer attention must be paid to sources documenting the contextual environment of the record. Such sources are essential to the furtherance of understanding which is the information profession's ultimate goal. / Arts, Faculty of / Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS), School of / Graduate