Provincial Archives Research Articles

Kenaikan Jabatan Fungsional Pustakawan di Lingkungan Dinas Perpustakaan dan Arsip Daerah Provinsi Jambi

ABSTRACT
 
 Introduction. This study aims to determine the functional promotion in supporting the career of librarians in the Jambi Provincial Archives and Archives Office. The purpose of this study was to determine the process of librarian functional promotion, and supporting and inhibiting factors in the process of librarian functional promotion in supporting the career of a librarian in the Jambi Provincial Library and Archive Service.
 Data Collection Method. This research uses descriptive qualitative method with a purposive sampling approach. 
 Results and Discussions. From the results of data analysis, it can be found that in the promotion of librarians' functional positions in the Regional Library and Archives Service in Jambi Province, one of them is collecting credit points, and elements for wearing positions by developing careers through education and training, library management, library services, development librarian system, professional development, and there is also a way to attend seminars that include library themes, and similar meetings in the library field. The factors supporting the promotion of the position of librarian in the Jambi Provincial Library and Archives Service are, from the MEMPAN decree and the leadership policy. In the inhibiting factor faced by librarians in the Jambi Provincial Library and Archives Service, namely internal factors originating from the librarians themselves, (librarians) and external factors from outside the librarians themselves (bureaucracy).
 Conclusion. Libraries in the Jambi Province Regional Library and Archives Service in the librarian promotion have not run optimally. Librarians are expected to work creatively and professionally. Libraries should also carry out more activities and trainings. The librarian position assessment team should carry out and function optimally.

Research on celebrity archives held by provincial archives in China

Research on celebrity archives held by provincial archives in China

Exploration role of volunteerism on the digitisation project: case of the office of the premier in Mpumalanga province, South Africa

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the role of volunteerism during the digitisation project by the Office of the Premier in Mpumalanga with a view recommending the best practice. Design/methodology/approach The empirical data was collected through the semi-structured qualitative interviews with the records manager and ten volunteer archivists employed by the Office of the Premier. Findings Local pupils within the Mpumalanga province were recruited to participate in the digitisation project as a form of youth empowerment. The Mpumalanga Provincial Archives was not involved in the digitisation project to ensure that all digitisation specification was in line with the requirement of the provincial archives. Furthermore, a lack of resources to implement the digitisation project was cited as the main stamping block for the successful implementation of the project. Research limitations/implications This paper is limited to the Office of the premier, in the Mpumalanga province. Practical implications Archivists interested in recruiting volunteers on a digitisation project can use this paper to understand the benefits and cost of volunteer labor before putting volunteer projects into practice. Social implications The success of a digitisation project depends on the involvement of the Mpumalanga Provincial archives. Originality/value This paper presents a unique case study in South Africa of a digitisation project staffed with volunteers in the office of the Premier.

Pengaruh Kompensasi, Gaya Kepemimpinan dan Motivasi Kerja Terhadap Kinerja Pegawai pada Badan Arsip dan Perpustakaan Provinsi Aceh

This study aims to determine the effect of compensation, leadership style and work motivation on employee performance in the Archives and Library of Aceh Province. This research was conducted at the Archive and Library Agency of the Province of Aceh, with the object of research being the effect of compensation, Leadership Style and work motivation on employee performance at the Archive and Library Board of the Province of Aceh. This analysis is based on data obtained from 181 population determination of the sample in this study using the Slovin formula, which is 44 people sampled. In this study, the data analysis method used is multiple linear regression analysis methods (Multiple Linear Regression) which are processed with the SPSS (Statistical Product and Service Solution) program. The results of the study based on the F test (simultaneously) obtained an F-count of 24.196 while the Ftable at a significant level α = 5% was 3.225. This shows that Fcount> F table, with a significance level of 0,000. The results of this calculation can be drawn a conclusion that accepting the null hypothesis, meaning that the compensation variable (X1) leadership style (X2) and work motivation (X3), jointly have a significant effect on employee performance at the Aceh Provincial Archives and Library Board. This means that overall respondents agreed to the indicators examined, thereby affecting the performance of employees at the Aceh Provincial Archives and Library Board. While partially from the three variables examined, it turns out that the compensation variable (X1) which has a dominant influence on employee performance at the Aceh Provincial Archives and Library Agency, because the regression coefficient is greater than the other variables. Keywords: compensation, leadership style, work motivation, employee performance.

The role of archives in documenting African National Congress Women’s League records that impacted the development of their records

Purpose This paper aims to assess the role of archives in documenting African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL) records on the liberation struggle of South Africa from 1960 to 1990 with a view to recommending the best method of collection and preservation of archival materials. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative data were collected through interviews with purposively selected employees of the African National Congress (ANC), the Nelson Mandela Foundation centre of memory, the national heritage and cultural studies at the University of Fort Hare, the National Archives of South Africa and provincial archives of South Africa. Interview data were augmented through content analysis of ANC documents such as policies, websites and annual reports. Findings The study found a gap of documentation of the role of archives in documenting ANCWL’s contribution to the liberation of South Africa. The National Archives of South Africa did not play a meaningful role to document the history of African National Women’s League in the liberation struggle of South Africa. There was also a lack of coordination of community archives that keep ANCWL archives materials. There is a need to embark on oral history and bilateral relations with overseas archival institutions to repatriate ANCWL archives to South Africa. Furthermore, contemporary history records about the ANCWL records need to be listed, arranged and described and made available to the public. Research limitations/implications The research is limited to the role played by the National Archives of South Africa and community archives such as the ANC archives, the Mayibuye Centre archives based at the University of Western Cape in documenting ANC and ANCWL and contemporary issues that impact the development of ANCWL records created from 1960 to 1990. Practical implications The findings are expected to be instrumental to document the history of women’s struggle for democracy in South Africa. The ANCWL collection may contribute to social cohesion to enable society to understand the role of ANCWL during the struggle for democracy in South Africa. While the literature on women’s archives is limited, there is still much research that needs to be conducted. Increasing the body of research will strengthen understanding of the role of the National Archives of South Africa and community archives on documenting women’s liberation struggle in South Africa. Social implications The document of women’s history would enrich the archival collection. This means that records with historical, cultural and social significance will be permanently preserved by archives. Originality/value The research appears to be the first of its kind to assess the documentation on the role of archives on documenting ANCWL. The archival heritage of women’s struggle for democracy forms part of the national archival heritage of South Africa as they bridge the gap of undocumented history of South Africa.

Archiving federally, writing regionally: archival practices and princely state histories in postcolonial India

ABSTRACT This article examines the paucity of pre-1947 Indian princely state records, especially those regarding their federalist advocacies from the 1920s through 1940s, in the various provincial archives in postcolonial India. Why is it that archives in Delhi and London have the majority of records pertaining to the federalist advocacies of the princely states, rather than the archives in provincial states that were constituted by the merger of princely states themselves? The absence of princely state federalist records reveals a surprising indifference to the preservation of historical records in various state archives. Indian archival laws pertain to public records alone, leaving out responsibility for the acquisition and preservation of historical records. Consequently, in India, the phrase “archival records” has come to mean public records more than 30 years old; there is no clarity as to what “historical records” are, nor guidance on how they should be preserved. Indian archival laws maintain a colonial understanding of the archive, wherein the function of the archive is to tame history in service of the state rather than preserve history outright. Taming the nation’s history in state archives silences the multiplicity of voices about Indian federation and presents particular difficulties when writing regional histories.

The othering of teacher training in Lebowa bantustan: A historical perspective

In this paper, I focus on the history of teacher training for Africans in the former Lebowa bantustan. My discussion of this is informed by the theoretical concepts of othering and structural racialisation, which capture various prejudices such as segregation, marginalisation, hierarchisation, subjugation, and racism. I examined textual data for the period 1970-1994 which included unpublished material, Lebowa Department of Education reports, memoranda, administrative documents, and newspaper articles and journals housed in Limpopo Provincial Archives, Polokwane, to elicit meaning and gain insight into the othering of teacher training in Lebowa. I established that African teachers were othered from economic, educational, political, and technological power through the bantustan policy and that this othering was interconnected. For African teachers to be inferior, subjugated, and marginalised, they needed to be spatially isolated; they had to receive a segregated, racialised, gendered, and inferior curriculum. This meant that resources were inequitably allocated and distributed across racial groups. Further, I argue that to understand the underlying problem of teacher education and other related challenges, we need to interrogate processes, structures, relationships, and the interconnectedness of the various factors and systems that produced a particular outcome.

The Homesteaders: From Confederation to the Great War by Sandra Rollings-Magnusson

Reviewed by: The Homesteaders: From Confederation to the Great War by Sandra Rollings-Magnusson Bill Waiser The Homesteaders: From Confederation to the Great War. By Sandra Rollings-Magnusson. Regina: University of Regina Press, 2018. xi + 175 pp. Figures, endnotes, bibliography. $39.95 CDN $29.95 USD, paper. It was a Saskatchewan success story. Six years after entering confederation as a province, Saskatchewan's population almost doubled, making it the third most populous province in Canada. The reason for the dramatic growth was settlers—lots of them. More people applied for homesteads in western Canada in the first decade of the twentieth century than during the entire previous century. In fact, for the years 1906 through 1911, three out of every five [End Page 106] homestead entries in the three prairie provinces were in Saskatchewan. Sandra Rollings-Magnusson tells this story in The Homesteaders. The work is an informative and intimate portrait of the Saskatchewan homesteading experience, largely in the words of those who settled the land. In 1955, as part of the province's diamond jubilee celebrations, the Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan sent questionnaires to homesteading families with an invitation to provide information in a number of areas. Thirty-five hundred responses were received—and Rollings-Magnusson has mined every one in preparing the book. The Homesteaders documents the recollections of those who won the prairie gamble—in other words, those who stayed on the land and successfully met their homestead requirements. The book not only describes the challenges that prospective settlers faced in turning their pioneer holdings into working farms, but also examines other day-to-day activities such as cooking, schooling, or social events. Rollings-Magnusson makes great use of the questionnaires to talk about these experiences. And she has nicely complemented the text with the rich photographic record. Anyone with farming roots will get lost in the book for several hours. What is generally missing, though, are those that failed to prove up. Success could be elusive—dependent on any combination of factors—and 2 of every 5 (40 percent) gave up. Their voices are understandably absent from the questionnaires. But their story needs to be told. The homesteading system assumed that all the land was of equal value, and settlers on marginal land found themselves in an impossible situation. Rollings-Magnusson also rightly notes that it was a white settlement frontier, that settlers of color were not welcome. But immigrants from continental Europe also faced discrimination from the dominant Anglo-Canadian society, and their treatment needs greater examination. Finally, Rollings-Magnusson explains that Indigenous people were not part of the settlement experience—had no future in the region—and are consequently missing from the story. But they didn't disappear. Indigenous people helped settlers in any number of ways—from cutting hay and fence posts to picking rocks to serving as midwives. Indeed, until large-scale mechanization arrived on the prairies, Indigenous people were a vital part of the farm labor force. That contribution needs to be recaptured to come to a better, fuller understanding of Saskatchewan's great success story. Bill Waiser Department of History University of Saskatchewan Copyright © 2020 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

New evidence of the wartime sex slave system implemented by Japan—Reading the archives on the “comfort women” of the Kwantung Army

The files recently released by the Jilin Provincial Archives on Japan’s Kwantung Kenpeitai (Military Police) and other records have revealed an array of crimes committed by Japan in its invasion of China. These include archives on the Japanese military’s sex slaves, the “comfort women,” detailing the “comfort stations” ubiquitously established by the Japanese military across the northeast, northern and central regions of China as well as Java and other locations, which compelled women to serve as sex slaves. There are even statistics on the ratio of “comfort women” to the officers and soldiers of the Japanese military, as well as the number of officers and soldiers who visited the “comfort stations” in a given time period. The postal inspection documents of the Kwantung Army preserve a number of letters by officers and soldiers which were seized and censored, which also record many details of the “comfort women” system practiced by the Japanese military. In particular, Unit 7990 obtained approval from the Japanese military authorities to remit the enormous sum of 530,000 Japanese yen via Manchukuo Central Bank over a four-month period, demonstrating the fact that the Japanese military used public funds to establish “comfort stations,” with the approval of the higher authorities. These archives are extremely valuable, reflecting the fundamental and unique nature of sources, and representing fresh evidence revealing the sex slave system implemented by Japan, as well as other atrocities.

„Rzeczy chrześciańskie” w księgozbiorze Towarzystwa Historii i Starożytności Pomorza i niemieckiego Archiwum Państwowego w Szczecinie

In 1824, the Society for the History and Antiquity of Pomerania (Gesellschaft für Pommersche Geschichte und Alterthumskunde) was established in Szczecin. It united, among others, scholars who conducted scientific research and published source editions. In the period of its many years of activity, the Society has accumulated rich collections that included monuments of material culture and a collection of books. In 1856, after the conclusion of the contract with the provincial archives in Szczecin (Königliche Provinzial-Archivs zu Stettin), the Society’s library was moved to this archives. The book collections of both institutions have inherited the library of today’s National Archives in Szczecin. We are talking about preserved collections, a significant part of them was dispersed during and after the World War II. This article presents selected examples of religious literature, focusing on editions published in the period from the fifteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century.

Analysis of archives infrastructure in South Africa

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to assess the extent to which the Mpumalanga Provincial Archives (MPA) complies with the Mpumalanga Archives Act, 2008 legislative/policy provisions of archives building, capacity building and electronic records management and to suggest recommendations for effective archives and records management (ARM) programme in South Africa.Design/methodology/approachThis paper adopts a quantitative approach supplemented by qualitative data using document review to collect data and content analysis.FindingsThe results show that MPA enacted Mpumalanga Archives Act, 2008. However, the challenge is the implementation of such legislation. The findings of this paper would contribute towards the literature in archival legislation in South Africa and other parts of the world.Research limitations/implicationsEven though the paper was based in South Africa, it was limited to the MPA of South Africa.Practical implicationsThe findings are expected to be instrumental in the implementation of Mpumalanga Archives Act, 2008.Social implicationsThe findings and recommendations will help in guiding MPA on the implementation of an effective provincial archive and records to facilitate the effective management of records to determine those of archival value, to preserve them for posterity and to make them accessible to the public.Originality/valueThis is an original study using a document review to review the Mpumalanga Archives Act, 1998. The effective archives infrastructure will contribute to compliance with legislative components such as archives building, cooperation, ERMS, appraisal and disposal of records, archives advisory body and access to information.

Asistencia sanitaria y salud pública en Talavera de la Reina durante la Guerra Civil (1936-1939)

El presente trabajo pretende analizar de forma integrada los efectos de la guerra civil española sobre la población y los servicios sanitarios de Talavera de la Reina, ciudad clave en el desarrollo de la contienda debido a su ubicación geográfica entre Andalucía occidental, Extremadura y Madrid. Para ello, se ha trabajado con documentación del Archivo Municipal de Talavera de la Reina, del Archivo del Centro Secundario de Higiene Rural de Talavera de la Reina, del Archivo Histórico Provincial de Toledo y del Archivo General Militar de Ávila. En primer lugar, se presenta el grupo de cinco hospitales militares que funcionaron en la ciudad, su organización y actividad, reconstruida a partir de los diferentes modelos de fichas utilizadas. La actividad preventiva se analiza desde dos puntos de vista, las órdenes emanadas de la autoridad militar, centradas en la higiene, alimentación y prevención de enfermedades infecciosas, y las actuaciones llevadas a cabo por las autoridades locales, centradas en asegurar un correcto abastecimiento de agua y recogida de residuos. Además, se expone la situación insalubre de las prisiones de la ciudad, siendo un claro ejemplo del estado sanitario del momento.

Analysis of the Role and Impact of the Mpumalanga Provincial Archives

The aim of the article was to analyse the role of the Mpumalanga Provincial Archives (MPA), South Africa, in society in compliance with the Mpumalanga Archives Act (MAA), 1998 (Act No. 14 of 1998). The qualitative study employed document analysis, interviews and observation as forms of data collection. The population for the study was drawn from a few selected departmental representatives in the province as well as MPA representatives. The key finding was that there was non-compliance with the MAA, which has serious implications on national memory and identity. The key recommendation was for the provincial archives to appoint an advisory council to advise the provincial archives on issues of archives management. The researcher concluded that archives play an essential role in the preservation of history, culture and societal heritage.

Assessing the Appraisal, Disposal and Transfer of Records from 1994 to 2014: The Case of Mpumalanga Provincial Government in South Africa

This study was conceptualised in order to assess the appraisal, disposal and transfer of archival records from the Mpumalanga Provincial Government (MPG) to the Mpumalanga Provincial Archives (MPA) for the period from 1994 to 2013. The study’s specific objective was to investigate the transfer process of archival records in terms of the Mpumalanga Archives Act, No. 14 of 1998. The study used a qualitative method through document analysis, interviews and observation. The sample for the study comprised the MPG and municipality records managers. The Mpumalanga provincial archivists were also interviewed as the custodians of the MPA. The key findings revealed that the MPG and the municipality did not comply with the Mpumalanga Archives Act, No. 14 of 1998 in terms of transferring records with archival value to the MPA as stipulated by the act. This has adverse implications for efficient administration of records in the country. 

ADMINISTARTIVE AUTHORITY OF PROTOHEGUMENS OF SVYATOPOKROVSKA PROVINCE (1743 – 1780 рр.): HISTORICAL AND LEGAL ASPECTS

The Purpose of the Research – is to determine the main directions of the administrative authority of the protohegumens. The methodology of the research is based on the analytical and synthetic criticism of the documentation, which was made by the protohegumens at the Provincial office of Pochayiv Lavra and during the field meetings of the provincial consulate. The comparison of the copies of the encyclical letters, which were included into the entrance books documentation of the local monastic chanceries, has been made in order to establish the impartiality of the presented information on the condition of the original document absence. The scientific novelty of the work is the use in the scientific circulation of the entire non-applied corps of the monastic documentation: the visits protocols, the reform decrees, the disciplinary affairs of the monasticism, the encyclical letters of the protohegumen of Svyatopokrovska Province of the Order of Saint Basil the Great. Conclusions. The historical circumstances of the monastic administrative unit formation –Svyatopokrovska Province of the Order of Saint Basil the Great has been revealed. The evolution of the monastic legislation of the united Rus Order of Saint Basil the Great has been traced. The main provisions of the Constitution of the Order of Saint Basil the Great concerning the definition of the administrative work of the protohegumen’s institution have been analyzed. The main directions of the protohegumen’s activity of the province have been defined: the visitation of the monasteries, the monastic discipline, the appointment of the priests, the convocation of the provincial consuls, creating the provincial archives, writing the messages, making the warnings, the orders, the reformation decrees.

The local and provincial archival collections on Java from the colonial era; The preliminary results of the inventorization project

The National Archives of Indonesia and the National Archives of the Netherlands have been collaborating on the Java Archival Guide Project. This project, which initially ran from 2016 to 2017, will be continued in a second phase. It will provide insight into the size and richness of the local and provincial archives formed on Java during the colonial period after the dissolution of the Dutch East India Company (1800-1949). The whereabouts of these archives in Indonesia have been unknown to many researchers, preventing access to academics, local historians and family researchers. The collections encountered during the research for this project date from the last days of the Dutch East India Company to the Japanese invasion and the years of the Indonesian National Revolution. The completed phase of the project was limited to the repositories of local and provincial governmental agencies on Java. In some cases the colonial collections seem to have disappeared, and in others, the records seem to have survived the years almost intact.

Walking the Path of My Ancestors: The Siksikastiapi (Blackfoot Confederacy)

This article articulates myself and my community’s journey navigating the Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) records written historically about our People (the Bloods) in order to identify who our ancestors are. Through the examination of historical texts, records and materials written by the Oblate missionaries of North-Western Canada, we were able to discover the hidden lived experiences of our People. The purpose of this study was to provide new scholarly insights into the texts and records of the Oblates regarding the Blood People. This research took place at the Alberta Provincial Archives over a seven-month period. This article reviews who the Oblates of Mary Immaculate were, and what measures were used to uncover our ancestors in the Provincial Archives. Data analysis determined that the individual archival records fragmented Indigenous Peoples and their history; however, collectively these records blend together to tell a story.

Corporate and Worker Photographs of the Offshore Oil Industry: The Case of the Ocean Ranger

Images of hydrocarbon extraction at sea remain strikingly circumscribed. The most extensively circulated are either the work of professional industrial photographers employed by oil companies to take carefully vetted promotional shots, or of news photographers commissioned to document catastrophes. Corporate-sponsored photography enforces the massive scale of offshore rigs, their technological sophistication, and apparent ability to withstand the vicissitudes of the ocean; it also tends to imply that companies adhere to strict safety regimens, and equal opportunity hiring practices. Photographs created by offshore oil workers are not widely circulated in the public domain. However, three collections of images recently donated to Newfoundland and Labrador’s provincial archives offer new viewpoints on the oil industry. Lance Butler, David Boutcher, and Lloyd Major were all employed on the Ocean Ranger platform, which capsized off the coast of Newfoundland in 1982 with the loss of 84 lives–including Boutcher’s. The men’s images resituate, expand upon, and on occasions challenge tropes that predominate in corporate photography; the striking arrangement of David Boutcher’s snapshots in album format by his mother is also salutary. This essay argues for the necessity of “onshoring” the offshore, and claims that workers’ photographs can potentially help us do so through a variety of means.

„Skarbiec przemożny drogich pamiątek”. Zarys dziejów Archiwum Polskiej Prowincji Dominikanów w Krakowie

In the Middle Ages, brothers preachers held archival material in trunks and manuscripts of the deceased monks in monastic libraries. The term ‘archivio communi provinciae’ (‘a common provincial archive’) appeared for the first time in the records of the general chapter of the Dominicans in Venice in 1592. The subsequent chapters recommended storing privileges, bulls and trial files in safe places, registering sources for the history of the province and producing inventories of movables and immovables, whose duplicates were to be held in the central provincial archive. Finally, provincial archives were legally established at the general chapter in Rome in 1756. In the 18th century, the Archive of the Polish Province was held in the library of the Krakow monastery dedicated to St Trinity; due to the beatification plans of the Sandomierz martyrs, the general of the order directed that this archive should be catalogued. In the first half of the next century, it was held in a separate room, and thanks to that, it survived the fire of the monastery in 1850.  In the following decades the archive was stored in the library again; at the turn of the 20th century, Brother Kazimierz Jucewicz looked after it, and in the second decade of the 20th century, Father Jacek Woroniecki was responsible for arranging and describing it. In 1926, a post of provincial archivist was established, and it was taken up by the following fathers respectively: Fabian Madura, Zygmunt Ogarek, Andrzej Gmurowski, Robert Świętochowski and Efrem Gliński. In 1937, the archive was transferred to a separate room. The fact that a large number of materials from the liquidated monasteries in the South-Eastern Borderlands were placed in Krakow contributed to establishing the Archive of the Polish Dominican Province in its present shape in 1947.  After that year, the office of the provincial archivist was held by the following fathers: Robert Świętochowski, Paweł Kielar, Zygmunt Bruno Mazur and Jan Andrzej Spież. Since 2009 Father Ireneusz Wysokiński has been in charge of the archive.

Struggling for Policy Implementation: The Establishment of Provincial Environmental Agencies in the 1970s and 1980s in Hubei, China

This article uses provincial archives and published materials to examine the early establishment of environmental agencies in Hubei, China, in the 1970s and 1980s. It identifies four groups of environmental agencies in Hubei in order to shed light on how Hubei institutionalized those offices and on how the provincial administrative structure evolved from a large group of offices to a much shorter list that survived with more specific policy missions. Many duties remained within the executive agencies already established. The article presents a further comparison to show how the evolutions of the Hubei Environmental Protection Bureau paralleled those of the Hubei Biogas Office in a few early, subnational experiments going back to 1957, with interpretation for intraoffice dynamics. These findings illustrate how subnational bureaucratic weakness became continually entangled with competing agendas in enforcing environmental policies and how China engaged in environmental policy implementation at the provincial and subprovincial levels.