A first introduction to archival science |
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| Authors: | Theo Thomassen |
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| Institution: | (1) University of Amsterdam, PO Box 1025, 1000 BA Amsterdam;(2) The Netherlands Archiefschool, PO Box 1025, 1000 BA Amsterdam |
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| Abstract: | This first introduction, written for educational purposes, is meant to be a concise basic text in which the core concepts
of archival science are coherently defined and explained, in a non-polemical way and departing from a de-institutionalised
point of view. It is not intended to support or reject any single theory, but to provide an overview. It should be read as
a synthesis of a variety of shared ideas and views, not as a manifesto of a new approach to archival science. If there is
anything new to it, it might be located in the coherent and integrated presentation. In this primer of archival science annotation
has been avoided.
The first of several versions of this First Introduction was written in August 1995. It was meant to meet the need of the
Netherlands Archiefschool for a basic text on archival science which could support its different programs for archival education
and training. After ample discussion with the archival science teachers of the Archiefschool, it was introduced in the 1995/1996
courses. From then on, it has been used in almost all courses and classes on archival science on the undergraduate, graduate
and postgraduate levels and in several training and retraining programs of the Archiefschool. The design of the first version
has been maintained in all subsequent versions, including this last one. Still, the text has frequently been adapted as a
result of discussions with students and colleagues, in and outside the school. This first English version can almost be deemed
as a collective product. Of the numerous colleagues who were engaged in this discussion and contributed to the text, special
mention has to be made of Peter Horsman, Hans Scheurkogel, Hans Hofman, Eric Ketelaar, Herman Coppens and Kent Hayworth, who
commented the English version. For the final text and all imperfections that may still cling to it I am, of course, responsible.
An earlier version in Dutch has been published as: Theo thomassen, “Een korte introductie in de archivistiek”, in: P.J. Horsman,
F.C.J. Ketelaar en T.H.P.M. Thomassen (red.),Naar een nieuw paradigma in de archivistiek ('s-Gravenhage, 1999), pp. 11–20. |
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| Keywords: | archival teaching archival theory |
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