KSZTAŁCENIE ARCHIWISTÓW NA GÓRNYM ŚLĄSKU I EDYCJE MIEJSCOWYCH ŹRÓDEŁ HISTORYCZNYCH
EDUCATION OF ARCHIVISTS IN UPPER SILESIA AND EDITING OF HISTORICAL SOURCES

Summary/Abstract: Three universities have been in the area of two Silesian Voivodeships i. e. Sile-sian and Opole: the oldest of them being Silesian University and younger ones being in Opole and Częstochowa, the latter one lying in the historical territory of Lesser Poland. The specialization of archival science is possible to study at all three universities at the departments of history, at present under the name of Archival Science and Record Management. A new situation, i. e. the reform of university studies and introducing of so called Bologna Process as well as a growing amount of archival documents and revolution in the IT area, have forced changes in educational programmes and archival specialization. These changes brought quite a few new challenges and thus introduced new programmes for education of future archivists. The main task remains – a satisfactory preparation for future profession of qualified and modern-thinking archivists who may also be more and more state officials working in the archives and in the offices. The study programmes of this specialization at the three universities, which are based on the generally accepted principles, have been a bit different though their “canon” remains the same. There is still the problem that most of the graduates from archival specialization cannot find a job in their field of work. The territory of Upper Silesia does not offer many archival materials from older periods. Besides that, the preserved written documents have been scattered and not satisfactorily examined. Even before World War II, the necessity of editing local archival sources had been stressed. Nevertheless, editing of these sources, though partially successful, has been more or less a matter for older archivists.

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