A discussão sobre a custódia, que polarizou a comunidade arquivística a respeito de como seria realizada a preservação dos documentos arquivísticos digitais, suscitou diversos questionamentos sobre os fundamentos da Arquivologia e do papel das instituições arquivísticas para desempenharem suas funções de guarda, preservação e acesso. Os arquivos historicamente foram concebidos como lugar de conservação de documentos autênticos e vinculados à administração. Essa ligação foi rompida no século XIX, quando os arquivos se tornaram históricos, voltados para a preservação das fontes do passado. A discussão sobre a preservação digital está possibilitando que os teóricos contemporâneos reflitam sobre os arquivos do ponto de vista do produtor, pois a preservação de materiais digitais é contínua e começa no momento da criação dos documentos. Esta religação com a administração significa a possibilidade de os arquivos se tornarem instituições do presente estreitamente ligadas ao exercício da cidadania. / The discussion about custody that polarized the archival community regarding how to implement the preservation of digital records raised diverse issues related to Archival Science fundamentals and about how archival institutions would develop their functions of guardianship, preservation and access. Archival repositories were historically conceived as places to preserve authentic records and were connected to the administration. This bond was broken in the XIX century, when archives became primarily historical, with the focus on preserving sources of the past. The discussion on digital preservation is offering an opportunity to contemporaneous scholars to think about archives from the point of view of the creator, because the preservation of digital materials is continuous and starts at the moment of record creation. This reconnection with the administration means that it is possible for archives to become institutions of the present closely committed to the exercise of citizenship.

Estudo da possibilidade do uso dos princípios da diplomática contemporânea ou tipologia documental para a elaboração de um instrumento de gestão de documentos arquivísticos - o manual de tipologia documental - tendo como laboratório o arquivo da Prefeitura Municipal de Campo Belo, MG e discutindo-se a evolução e organização do município no Brasil, sua documentação característica, assim como as teorias e metodologias da diplomática contemporânea, como subsídios para a construção daquele instrumento. Apresentação do manual de tipologia documental do arquivo municipal de Campo Belo, MG, que contém: estrutura da Prefeitura Municipal, lista de tipos documentais, tabela de equivalência e verbetes de análise dos tipos dos documentos correspondentes a cada um dos órgãos municipais. / A study about the possibilities of the application of the contemporary diplomatics principles for the elaboration of a records administration instrument- a manual of documental types - using the Campo Belo's public archive as laboratory and discussing the evolution and organization of local government in Brazil, and presenting how the contemporary diplomatics’s methods and theories can be used for the construction of those instruments. A presentation of a manual of documental types belonging to Campo Belo's public archive that contains: general schedule of Prefeitura Municipal, the list of documental types, equivalence schedule and the analysis of each documental type of every local government agency.

In the past, little has been written about the practical aspects of outreach. This thesis investigates the value of outreach and how it is put into practice in British Columbia's community archives. Interviews with managers of four community archives were conducted. The findings reveal that three of the interviewees regard outreach as a high priority and a fundamental part of regular activity. For these respondents, outreach activities have been positive and beneficial. They have successfully used outreach to augment and assist with acquisition, preservation and use of archival records. Only one interviewee presented a passive and cautious approach towards outreach. Results of this study indicate that outreach activities are not influenced by the administrative setting or the budget of the archives. This study identified the essential components necessary for the implementation and delivery of successful outreach initiatives as: a regular source of funding, incorporation into an annual work plan, district goals and objectives that are relevant to the mandate of the institution, attention to the target audience, community co-operation and support, and evaluation of results. This study reaffirms the value of archivists practising outreach, and provides encouragement to those who are looking for concrete methods of approaching outreach. / Arts, Faculty of / Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS), School of / Graduate

This thesis surveys the efforts made by Canadian and American records administrators, both records managers and archivists, to ensure that records are created, received, stored, used, preserved, and disposed of in a manner which is both efficient and effective. Beginning with the French Revolution and continuing to modern times, it investigates how approaches in North American archival thinking, government records programs, and applicable records legislation were often flawed because of fundamental misconceptions of the nature of the records themselves. The thesis traces how the most widely accepted approach for administering records, which called for the division of responsibilities amongst records professionals according to the records' "life status" — active, semi-active, or inactive — was incorrect because it was not compatible with the reality that records exist as a conceptual whole and are best administered in a manner which reflects this realization. The records, which should have been managed as a coherent and complete fonds of an institution, suffered from these divisions which had eventually led to the evolution of separate records occupations: those who looked after active records, called records managers, and those who handled inactive ones, labelled archivists. What was required was an "integrated" or "unified" approach such as that articulated by the Canadian archivist Jay Atherton. Like others, he called for the management of records in a manner which reflected the singular nature of the records, an approach which did not make arbitrary divisions where none existed, but instead viewed records from a wider and more complete perspective. Support for this approach amongst some records administrators was precipitated by a number of factors, not the least of which were the demands of handling information in modern society. The thesis concludes by examining what is required for the integrated ideas to be implemented as part of a practical model in today's institutions. It suggests that for the best results to be achieved, records administrators will have to learn to work with others in related information professions, or risk losing the ability to make valid contributions in the modern information age. / Arts, Faculty of / Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS), School of / Graduate

This thesis examines the concepts of reliability, authenticity and documentary form as defined by archival diplomatics and their relation to moving image records, for the purpose of exploring the possibility of using them to develop a method for the preservation of the moving image's intellectual integrity over time. To achieve this purpose, the study establishes a correspondence between the tenriinology and the theories used to express these concepts in the two fields through an examination of archival diplomatics and moving images glossaries, dictionaries and literature. Notwithstanding the different understandings of the concepts examined, the thesis finds that when moving images can be regarded as records - that is, as contextual mediated visual and aural representations compiled for the purpose.of.entering into communication - it is possible to use archival diplomatics methodology to analyze them successfully. On the strength of this finding, the thesis proceeds to establish a correspondence between the diplomatic elements of documentary form and the components of an ideal moving image record, demonstrating parallels and explaining and reconciling differences, in order to build a template for the analysis of all kinds of moving image records. This diplomatic instrument is to be used for the identification of the formal elements of a moving image that allow for the maintenance, verification and preservation of its reliability and authenticity over the long term. The necessity of such an instrument derives from the fact that the use of digital technologies for the making, exhibiting and storing of moving images will render the ability to prove their integrity and their preservation increasingly more difficult. The thesis is concluded by a discussion relating the effects of the pervasive use of digital technologies in the field of moving images, and a demonstration of the substantial threat they present for the continuing reliability and authenticity of moving images. This discussion shows the advantages of a close cooperative effort by archivists and moving image theorists in developing interdisciplinary methods for addressing such threats that are rooted in archival diplomatics and fully respect the nature of the moving image record. / Arts, Faculty of / Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS), School of / Graduate

The aim of the thesis is that, from a postmodern archival theoretical perspective, investigate how two personal archives after famous authors Selma Lagerlöf and Astrid Lindgren are arranged, described and presented at KB, the National Library of Sweden. The thesis investigates what constructed image the collections presents, who the supposed user of the archives is, how the collections are accessible and their role as important sources within the humanities research. The study involved the collections digital archive presentations and four different texts that all discuss the archives. The method chosen was qualitative research methodology and critical discourse theory. The analysis included a study of the level of text, discursive practice and social practice. The results showed that specific usage of language and words have a vast impact on the construction of the narrative. Both postmodern archival theory and critical discourse theory enables the exposition of the relations of power and ideology that these discursive and social practices hold. This leads to the conclusion that the majority of knowledge are socially constructed and that archives holds power by promoting one narrative over another. In personal archives this also plays a big role in the construction of identity and in identity politics.

Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 1, published in 1984. This issue did not have a theme but focused on news from the Center of Appalachian Studies and Services and other news and creative works from Appalachian writers. / https://dc.etsu.edu/now-then/1000/thumbnail.jpg

Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine, Volume 2, Issues 1-2, published in 1985. The theme of this issue is Appalachian Women. / https://dc.etsu.edu/now-then/1001/thumbnail.jpg

Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 3, published in 1985. This issue's theme is Appalachian Music. / https://dc.etsu.edu/now-then/1002/thumbnail.jpg

Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 1, published in 1986. This issue highlights the work of Black Appalachians and features key Black figures in Appalachian history. / https://dc.etsu.edu/now-then/1003/thumbnail.jpg