Guide to the Public Archives of Rhodesia. I. 1890–1923. Edited by T. W. Baxter. Salisbury: National Archives of Rhodesia, 1969. Pp. xxxii + 262, ill. 42s. (in Rhodesia).

Africa ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 298-298
Keyword(s):  
The Public ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Public Archives

To collaborate or not to collaborate, that is the question

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nampombe Saurombe ◽  
Patrick Ngulube
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Public ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Other Information ◽  
The Common ◽  
Public Archives ◽  
Information Providers ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

Public archives in east and southern Africa are functioning in a competitive information environment. Institutions such as libraries and museums also offer information, but fewer people utilise public archives. More effort is required to make archives a part of the daily lives of citizens in east and southern Africa. This study sought to explore whether or not public archives should collaborate with other information providers in their mission to increase social interaction with the archives. Directors of National Archives, archivists and members of the East and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives (ESARBICA) Board were invited to shed light on their experiences and views regarding collaboration in outreach initiatives. The directors completed a questionnaire, while the archivists and board members participated in face-to-face interviews. Country reports from the different ESARBICA member states were also reviewed. The findings indicate that collaboration in outreach initiatives took place to a certain extent, but libraries and museums were rarely part of this. This paper recommends that public archives play a stronger role in collaborative efforts to improve their visibility and widen their outreach to the public in east and southern Africa. The findings provide an overview on collaborative outreach projects from the perspective of selected archivists from this region, and therefore cannot be generalised to represent the common views of this entire region.

scholarly journals Transition from analogue to digital at the National Archives of Zimbabwe

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 21-29
Author(s):  
Amos Bishi ◽  
Antonio Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
The Public ◽  
Historical Collections ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Collecting Methods ◽  
The Right ◽  
Public Archives ◽  
Analogue To Digital

This paper seeks to bring to light the contemporary landscape of digital technology at the National Archives of Zimbabwe (NAZ) and its move towards the provision of access and awareness of its historical collections through technology. The institution has geared towards opening its doors to the public through outreach programmes; public exhibitions; websites; oral history projects; publications and broadcasting archives with changing circumstances. The ideology of taking the archives to the citizens has paved way for outreach archivists to do the right thing, in line with their obligations to provide access to information. The National Archives of Zimbabwe, like any other archive, preserves records that have been selected for permanent preservation because of their historical and enduring value. The paper explores the challenges faced by the public archivist in the management of traditional and analogue archives and the subsequent need for transition to digital technologies. The adoption of digital technologies in the management of public archives will enable the public archivists to provide faster and easier access to the archival materials. Digital technologies enhance information sharing and reduce redundancy of the collections. The researchers used a qualitative case study methodology with an interpretivist perspective where the main focus of the research was on the NAZ’s Public Archive. Interviews, document analysis and observations were used as the major data collecting methods. The results showed that the institution had made a good start, encouraging progress and was still working on the migration from analogue technology to full adoption of digital technology.

scholarly journals Varðveisla gagna í stjórnsýslunni

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 321
Author(s):  
Kristín Benediktsdóttir ◽  
Trausti Fannar Valsson
Keyword(s):  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Amount Of Information ◽  
National Archives ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Public Archives

A great amount of information is accumulated by public authorities. The preservation or disposal of such information is regularly the subject of disputes. This paper addresses the Articles of the Public Archives Act No. 77/2014 that specify what records should be preserved by authorities subject to an obligation of transfer and the subsequent transfer of these records to public archives at a later stage, as well as which authority controls the transfer. The main conclusions are: Firstly, all records produced by and associated with the operation of entities subject to the obligation of transfer fall within the scope of the Act irrespective of their form or how they are produced unless special Acts lead to different conclusions. Secondly, all records should be preserved unless prescriptions and authorizations by the National Archives of Iceland or special Acts lead to different conclusions with respect to the preservation or disposal of the records. Thirdly, The National Archives of Iceland supervises compliance with the Act.

Institutional collaboration in the creation of digital linguistic resources: the case of the British Telecom correspondence corpus

2020 ◽  
pp. 153-164
Author(s):  
Ralph Morton ◽  
Hilary Nesi
Keyword(s):  
Post Office ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Searchable Database ◽  
The Public ◽  
Institutional Collaboration ◽  
Linguistic Resources ◽  
National Archives ◽  
The Creation ◽  
British Telecom ◽  
Public Archives

This chapter discusses the creation of the British Telecom Correspondence Corpus (BTCC), a searchable database of letters taken from the public archives of British Telecom (BT) that were written by nearly 400 authors on a wide variety of topics between 1853 and 1982. It first discusses some experiences working on the New Connections project, funded by Jisc (formerly the Joint Information Systems Committee) and a collaboration between Coventry University, BT Heritage, and The National Archives, focusing particularly on the methodological issues encountered. The corpus was created to address a gap in existing corpus resources, and so that researchers (primarily linguists) could access and, crucially, engage with the language of the letters. Since the completion of the BTCC there have been efforts to expand the corpus to include correspondence written to and from the Post Office, an institution with many historical links to BT. This chapter addresses issues surrounding institutional collaboration in both phases of this ongoing research.

scholarly journals Transition from analogue to digital at the National Archives of Zimbabwe

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 21-29
Author(s):  
Amos Bishi ◽  
Antonio Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
The Public ◽  
Historical Collections ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Collecting Methods ◽  
The Right ◽  
Public Archives ◽  
Analogue To Digital

This paper seeks to bring to light the contemporary landscape of digital technology at the National Archives of Zimbabwe (NAZ) and its move towards the provision of access and awareness of its historical collections through technology. The institution has geared towards opening its doors to the public through outreach programmes; public exhibitions; websites; oral history projects; publications and broadcasting archives with changing circumstances. The ideology of taking the archives to the citizens has paved way for outreach archivists to do the right thing, in line with their obligations to provide access to information. The National Archives of Zimbabwe, like any other archive, preserves records that have been selected for permanent preservation because of their historical and enduring value. The paper explores the challenges faced by the public archivist in the management of traditional and analogue archives and the subsequent need for transition to digital technologies. The adoption of digital technologies in the management of public archives will enable the public archivists to provide faster and easier access to the archival materials. Digital technologies enhance information sharing and reduce redundancy of the collections. The researchers used a qualitative case study methodology with an interpretivist perspective where the main focus of the research was on the NAZ’s Public Archive. Interviews, document analysis and observations were used as the major data collecting methods. The results showed that the institution had made a good start, encouraging progress and was still working on the migration from analogue technology to full adoption of digital technology.

Archiving the British Raj

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
The Public ◽  
British Raj ◽  
National Archives ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Central Archive

The archives are generally sites where historians conduct research into our past. Seldom are they objects of research. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya traces the path that led to the creation of a central archive in India, from the setting up of the Imperial Record Department, the precursor of the National Archives of India, and the Indian Historical Records Commission, to the framing of archival policies and the change in those policies over the years. In the last two decades of colonial rule in India, there were anticipations of freedom in many areas of the public sphere. These were felt in the domain of archiving as well, chiefly in the form of reversal of earlier policies. From this perspective, Bhattacharya explores the relation between knowledge and power and discusses how the World Wars and the decline of Britain, among other factors, effected a transition from a Eurocentric and disparaging approach to India towards a more liberal and less ethnocentric one.

Raising Awareness About Public Archives in East and Southern Africa Through Social Media

2019 ◽  
pp. 160-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nampombe Saurombe
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Civic Duty ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Public Archives ◽  
Southern Regional

Archives serve as society's collective memory because they provide evidence of the past as well as promoting accountability and transparency of past actions. Appreciation of the archives should therefore result in citizens linking these records with their identity, history, civic duty and cultural heritage. However, research in east and southern Africa seems to indicate that very few citizens are aware of and use the archives. Social media platforms have been utilized to raise awareness about the archival institutions elsewhere. This study sought to find out whether the National Archives in east and southern Africa used social media to raise awareness about archives. The study involved 12 national archives affiliated to the East and Southern Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives (ESARBICA) using a multi-method research strategy. The findings indicated that social media platforms were not a preferred option in outreach strategies, even though they were recognized as useful means to reach online information seekers.

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