فصلنامه گنجینه اسناد
پیاپی 126 (تابستان 1401)

Studying the relationship between the social status of the senders and recipients of correspondences between The Safavid and The Mughal at the time of Shah Suleiman (1105-1077 AH) and the content and superficial characteristics of letters.

Method and Research Design: 

Historical evidence in books, archival records and manuscript number 5032 of The Library, Museum, and Document Center of Iran Parliament were investigated using content analysis, and the relationship between the superficial characteristics of each letter and the social status of the senders and recipients was studied in a comparative way.

According to the study, there are strong evidences that there is a direct relationship between textual and non-textual content of the letters and the social status of their senders and recipients. Thus, textual elements such as words and phrases, preambles, titles and non-textual elements such as size and quality of the papers, script-styles, embellishments and the form of packaging represented the social status of both sender and recipients, and their positions, age and gender.

Iran's vast and costly nuclear program in the 1940s and 1950s was one of the major symbols of economic and foreign relations of The Second Pahlavi. Archival records play an important role in identifying and recognizing this highly confidential process. The online publication of rare records in western world archives is a turning point in the study of the history of Iran's nuclear activities at the time of The Second Pahlavi. Therefore, the author tries to answer the following questions by relying on these primary resources:How did the nuclear developments of The Second Pahlavi Government occur?What is the role of online archives in scientific recognition of the process?

Method and Research Design: 

The records of various archives of Iran, online archives outside of Iran and various Iranian newspapers of the time were investigated, described and analyzed.

The study revealed that the rate of Iranian nuclear progress was constant and slow till the late 1960s. From the beginning of the 1970s, the rate accelerated owing to long-term goals and extensive development activities, and became a symbol of the new era of Iranian history and industry in independent national politics based on the doctrine of the imperial government. Due to the secrecy of the program and a number of ambiguities, Latin online records play a very important role in recognizing this part of contemporary Iranian history.

To investigate the content of election petitions of the twenty-first National Consultative Assembly.

Method and Research Design: 

In order to distinguish the writers and the addressees of the petitions, and their contents, election petitions of eighteen constituencies were investigated using content analysis.

The investigations clarified that a number of petitions were written before the election with the purpose of supporting a candidate and the addressees were the high-ranking authorities of the country, whereas the others were written after the election by the unsuccessful candidates or their political campaigns and the addressees were the board of control of the election, authorities of The Ministry of Interior and The National Consultative Assembly, The Royal Court and the King. The style and wording of the texts was in conformity with the current condition and discourse of the country and His Majesty’s wishes.

This article aims to depict the ups and downs of constructing the first national railway of Iran and determining its route at the time of Reza Shah, as well as the approach of foreigners, especially England.

Method and Research Design:

 Library resources, archival records, and press reports were studied, described and analyzed.

The investigations clarified that from the very beginning of the railway construction debates in Iran, some proposals considered Iran's railway as a connecting corridor with Europe and East Asia, whereas the others propose a national railway within the borders of Iran. Although there was never a practical and serious effort to build a national railway in Iran during the Qajar period, we cannot ignore the fact that many plans were presented and considerable theoretical discussions were raised. Some of those proposals, such as Sani al-Dawlahs’, were used to build the national railway at the time of Reza Shah. In addition, it seems that the first serious effort of the Iranian government to build a national railway started at the time of Prime Minister Watouq al-Dawlah. The British were unsuccessful in persuading the Iranian authorities to build a railway from Qasr-Shirin to Tehran, and the Iranian authorities’ insistence on building a north to south railway reveals their failure. Reza Shah’s persistence had a great impact on building the first national railway of Iran.

Biodeterioration of library materials is a worldwide problem in archives and libraries. Investigation of biological agents (quantitatively and qualitatively) as well as environmental factors that affect the survival and persistence of microorganisms, are the main parts of preventive conservation. Therefore, we studied the biological pollution in repositories and other parts of the Documentation Center and Library of the Cultural Heritage and Tourism Research Institute and evaluated the environmental factors (temperature, relative humidity) in order to preserve paper works.

Method and Research Design: 

Quantitative and qualitative investigations of biological contaminants (bacteria and fungi) were performed using sedimentation method (passive method). In addition, environmental factors (temperature and relative humidity) were monitored in audiovisual and records repositories.

Relative humidity and temperature variation rates were high and non-standard in the audiovisual and records repositories. Biological studies showed that the fungal and bacterial contamination level in the library repository was higher than the alert level. The most frequent bacterial isolates were Bacillus and Staphylococcus and the dominant fungal isolates belonged to the genera Aspergillus, Penicillium, Alternaria, Cladosporium, most of which have a high potential to produce decomposing enzymes.

Identifying the processes of managing university archives in the world's top universities and providing solutions for proper management of university archives of Iran.

The study is applied research in terms of the purpose and was conducted using descriptive research method. The statistical population was the archives of the top 150 universities in the world. Data was collected using a researcher-made questionnaire. The collected data was recorded in SPSS software and analyzed based on descriptive statistics.

Most of the university archives operate under the supervision of the university library and consist of administrative, historical, and research archives. Official university / administrative and financial records comprise the bulk of the collection in university archives. Professors, students and researchers outside the university were the main users of university archives. Collection level was the most common level of records arrangement and description, and records arrangement and description are based on national and international standards, the most common of which is the ISAD standard. Records and resources could only be used in the study room in most university archives. Training programs in records arrangement and description for employees were a priority. Holding exhibitions ranked first among the types of educational programs for users. In general, all the different activities and aspects of managing the identified university archives were very important in the university archives perspectives, but their importance varied in each university archive according to the university policies.