Arhivski vjesnik, No. 40, 1997.
Review article
An archivist’s identity: from an occupation to a profession
Josip Kolanović
Abstract
The question of an archivist’s identity is chiefly connected with his education and his role in the society. The author analyses the relationship between an archivist and the society and an archivist’s attitude towards his profession. He analyses an archivist’s identity through historical development of the archival service. He points out three phases of the development: autonomous development of registries, connection of archives with the creators of records and creation of an autonomous archival service and, consequently, the profession of the archivist. The author stresses the affirmation of archival science as an individual science, a thorough education of an archivist as an expert and the acceptance of the profession by the society as main points in creating an archivist’s identity in the present. In the development of an archivist’s identity, he attributes a fundamental significance to the education of an archivist as a separate profession, whose object of study is the archival science. He regards other knowledge (e.g. history of institutions, auxiliary sciences of history, the information science) as auxiliary sciences of the archival science.
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11047
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Publication date:
30.3.1998.
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