Conference paper
PERSONAL ARCHIVE OR MUSEUM ACTIVITIES OF MUSEUM PROFESSIONALS
Jozefina Dautbegović
; Muzejski dokumentacijski centar, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
The Personnel Archives are MDC’s project initiated in the beginning of 2002 with the aim of collecting relevant documents and information created through the work of prominent museum professionals, and includes biographical and bibliographical information, books, monographs, journals, masters’ and doctors’ theses, studies, offprints, projects, letters, photographs, video and audio recordings, CDs and other documents.
The aims are the following:
- the preservation of permanent values of the intangible cultural heritage,
- the enrichment of existing holdings: archives, libraries, photographic archives, video-archives, CD-archives and so on.
Why?
The formation of Personnel Archives enriches the cultural heritage, and makes the work of future museum professionals easier with respect to research, drawing up bibliographies, monographs
of museum institutions and similar publications. Information from the Personnel Archives are primarily used for museological purposes.
Who is represented?
All signiÞ cant museum professionals and art historians who have made a mark through their work, professional knowledge, museum and cultural programmes, successes at home and abroad
and who have contributed to the promotion of the profession and the milieu in which they worked. The minimum age requirement for those represented in the Personnel Archives is 60.
Means of work: in stages. The first stage: Explaining the project to the interviewee and setting a date for the interview Second stage: Filling out the questionnaire of the Personnel Archives
Third stage: Visit to the interviewee in order to record the interview and take photographs (recording using a camera), as well as to gather archives material. Fourth stage (ofÞ ce work): organising, taking stock of the materials gathered in the Þ eld and cataloguing it. Duplicates of the recorded material sent to the interviewee for authorization. Note: We need to receive permission that the gathered information can be used for museological
needs and publications. The gathered archival material has the same importance as other archives materials and is to be kept in a space that meets the required conditions for keeping and preserving archival materials.
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Hrčak ID:
77526
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Publication date:
1.6.2007.
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