Dawne fotografie dotyczące życia i twórczości Jana Matejki w zbiorach Archiwum Narodowego w Krakowie

Author(s): Bożena Lesiak-Przybył / Language(s): Polish Issue: 67/2022

The collection of the National Archives in Cracow contain 66 photographs related to Jan Matejko. They were taken in the period from 1860s till 1939, mostly by photographers from Cracow and Warsaw, but the authorship of some of them remains unknown. Due to their subject, the photographs may be divided into four groups: 1) presenting Jan Matejko (6 likenesses) and documenting his funeral (2); 2) photographs documenting the artist’s works (47 items); 3) photographs related to Jan Matejko’s house as a museum (7 photographs) and 4) photographs taken during Jan Matejko’s 100th birthday anniversary (4 photos). Most of the photographs, that is 47, have been donated. But the Archives also tried to purchase some key materials. This way 14 (or 15) photographies have been obtained. The provenance of 3 of the photographs remains unknown.The photographs gathered in the National Archives in Cracow create an interesting collection, which, although not very wide, contains some precious items (works lost or damaged during World War II), which are particularly important for the researchers interested in the artist’s life and activity. Especially on the grounds that every photograph related to Jan Matejko is of undeniable value.

Od drukowania rycin przez faksymilowanie starodruków do bartynotypii numizmatów, czyli o paskach i pracach Władysława Bartynowskiego

Author(s): Krystyna Pawłowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 67/2022

Władysław Bartynowski was a famous Polish numismatist active in the second half of 19th century in Cracow. Apart from coins, his collection included also old historical graphics, prints and books. He worked as an antiquarian and publisher, and his key aim was to protect Polish cultural heritage and works of art representing his areas of interest. Therefore, he was not only collecting and trading, but also cataloguing, maintaining and reproducing prints, graphics , books and coins. Motivated by patriotic feelings, he used to take care of the safety of relics he received and the availability of copies to all interested parties. He was one of the first Polish makers of old prints facsimiles, which he called the likenesses. As an editor of „Wiadomości Archeologiczno-Numizmatyczne”, he tried to improve the method of reproduction of coins and medals on paper. In relations to that, he invented own method of hollow graphic reproduction of numismates on paper. These prints, called bartynotypes, were used mainly for cataloguing of the collection of count Andrzej Potocki. Unfortunately, the collection, like many other relics, was damaged or dispersed due to World Wars. Bartynowski’s reproductions remain the only relic of the lost works of numismatic, graphic and printing art, as well as the art of medals. He donated the greater part of the collection to the Czapski Muzeum he established together with the count Emeryk Hutten-Czapski and his wife.The paper on the Władysław Bartynowski’s publishing portfolio is based mostly on his family archive. It is one of the chapters of a planned book about the Bartynowski Family.

Bezpieczeństwo materiałów archiwalnych w koncepcjach nowoczesnych budynków archiwalnych

Author(s): Barbara Berska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2023

Archival buildings are increasingly being constructed in ways that help reduce energy consumption. This applies mainly to repositories, but in some cases also applies to other functional parts of the archive. By opting for environmentally friendly solutions, archives reduce their dependence on technical installations and thus achieve greater security of building use, in addition to reducing operating costs by reducing energy consumption. The archive building must be properly prepared for long-term storage of archival materials. It must also meet the requirements for a friendly public institution, well prepared to serve and meet the diverse needs of users in the field of state archives activities. The functions performed affect its design, equipment and the installations, technologies and functional solutions used. The state of preservation of collections collected, stored and accessed in archives is influenced by a wide variety of factors, and largely depends on the conditions of the internal environment in which the collections are stored, but also on the functional, architectural or structural solutions used. An example of a modern archival building, referring, in terms of the above solutions, to the best examples of facilities designed to secure archival resources built in Europe is the National Archives in Krakow.

Nowy energooszczędny magazyn Archiwum Narodowego w Krakowie

Author(s): Roman Kozłowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2023

Energy saving is in the vital economic interest of institutions preserving cultural heritage resources. Sustainability requirements emphasizing the reduction of carbon emissions also play an important role. In 2020, the storage segment at the new seat of the National Archives in Krakow was put into operation, combining energy efficiency with high-quality collection care. The facility has eight floors and will ultimately accommodate 70,000 linear meters of records. It is a separate structure with no permanent workspace, and the largely passive stabilization of the optimal microclimate for the collections has been ensured by well-thought-out construction solutions: good thermal insulation and high tightness of the building shell, and use of porous building materials with good water vapour exchange capacity on architectural surfaces. The conducted measurements showed that the temperature inside the storage followed the annual cycle of temperature changes outside reaching its lowest value in February 2021, between 11 and 14oC, depending on the floor. For most parts of the year – from October to June – relative humidity remained spontaneously at an optimal level of around 50% with minor short-term fluctuations. During the summer season, the air is dehumidified by energy-efficient dehumidification equipment. Dry conditions and low temperatures for most of the year reduce the rate of chemical degradation of archival objects.

Japonica w Archiwaliach po Bronisławie Piłsudskim w Bibliotece PAU i PAN w Krakowie (9). Fujihiko Sekiba i jego przesyłka

Author(s): Alfred F. Majewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 65/2020

The present material constitutes the ninth installment of the series introducing Japanese documents preserved with Bronisław Piłsudski’s archives in the Academic Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Lettres (PAU) and Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) in Cracow and includes photocopies of a letter in German (with its envelope indicating the addressee and the sender in Japanese, its decipherment transcript, and translation into Polish) dated , sent, together with an attached book, to Bronisław residing at that time in Tokyo by Dr. Fujihiko Sekiba, a renowned physician famous all over Japan, long-standing head of the Hokkaido Medical Association and a hospital (both founded by himself), but also medicine historian, anthropologist and one of the pioneers in Japanese ethnomedicine. The book of his own authorship was an extensive monograph on Ainu medicine studied also by Bronisław himself. The paper provides essential data concerning Sekiba’s biography and his legacy (especially, his scientific publications and the hospital still existing and considered one of the leading medical institutions in Hokkaido), and the book in question itself, with an appeal to make every effort possible to trace and find the copy of the book (possibly with some personal dedication) sent, but so far unidentified: Piłsudski, a dedicated collector of “things Ainu”, never easily parted with such items). The letter and the book mailed to Bronisław demonstrate how famous Piłsudski was in Japan as an Ainu researcher as early as 1906 (six years prior to the publication, in Cracow, of Materials for the Study of the Ainu Language and Folklore that secured for him the eternal reference in the annals of academic research worldwide. Mentioned have also been certain related publications on Ainu medicine by Piłsudski.

Matryce Stanisława Dawskiego (1905–1990) w zbiorach Biblioteki Naukowej PAU i PAN w Krakowie

Author(s): Agnieszka Fluda-Krokos / Language(s): Polish Issue: 66/2021

The article is a preliminary research on the body of bookplates by Stanisław Dawski (1905–1990) – an artist, graphic designer, painter, professor and the rector of the State College of Fine Arts in Wrocław (currently the Academy of Fine Arts). The Graphic Collections of the Scientific Library of PAU and PAN keeps 383 plates (some of them used two-sidedly) with 409 matrices used for graphics, mostly bookplates; Dawski produced c. 505 bookplates. The collection was donated to the Library in 2009 by Lech Kokociński

Quattro manoscritti italiani del fondo berlinese ritrovati recentemente a Cracovia. Schede integrative dei cataloghi precedenti

Author(s): Roman Sosnowski / Language(s): Italian Issue: 1/2023

In this paper I present the detailed descriptions of the Italian manuscripts re-discovered recently in Kraków and considered lost in 2012 when the catalogues of the collection were being printed. The inquiries at the time revealed that four of the Italian manuscripts listed in the Lemm’s old inventory were neither in Kraków nor in Berlin as well as some other manuscripts deposited in the boxes during the Second World War. Thankfully, these boxes were discovered in 2014, and inside there were the Italian manuscripts believed to be lost forever. In order to complete the 2012 catalogues and in accordance with the criteria adopted therein, I offer the descriptions of the four manuscripts, thus completing the long-standing work of the Fibula group on Romance manuscripts from the Berlin collection.

БИБЛИОГРАФИЯ НА БЪЛГАРСКАТА НАСЛЕДСТВЕНОПРАВНА ЛИТЕРАТУРА СЛЕД 1949

Author(s): Vasil Petrov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2022

Improving archival collections’ discoverability, accessibility, and usability through contextual information

Author(s): Rona Razon / Language(s): English Issue: 36/2018

This paper examines how the new conceptual model Records in Contexts (RiC) by the Expert Group on Archival Description (EGAD) of the International Council on Archives (ICA) could improve access and use of historical or cultural heritage collections through its emphasis on contextualized information. It also shows how contextualized archival descriptions play an important role in virtually or intellectually reuniting physically dispersed but related archival collections, as in the case of the Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C., United States, and the Bibliothèque byzantine of Collège de France in Paris, France. While discoverability of information in archives and research institutions has increased since the emergence of finding aids and online databases, the accessibility and usability of archival information are issues that many archivists are still struggling to improve and perfect. Lingering questions among archival professionals include: how much information should be given to each collection; should archivists provide contextual information for enhanced access and use of collection materials; or are minimal descriptions sufficient? To illustrate the advantages of putting records in context, this paper investigates how the physically separated but associated archives of Thomas Whittemore and the Byzantine Institute came together, although they are preserved and described in two different institutions. Through the efforts of restoring Respect des fonds to its original order, echoing RiC’s stress on the principles of Provenance, the aim was to enhance the discovery of information and to focus on the approachability and usefulness of information for better scholarship of primary or archival sources.

Latviešu Nacionālā fonda publikācijas un padomju dezinformācija

Author(s): Viesturs Zanders / Language(s): Latvian Issue: 50/2023

Collecting and disseminating of information was the most important field of work for Latvian National Fund (further in text – LNF), founded in Stockholm in 1947. For almost 50 years LNF has published books and brochures in different languages telling about the occupied Latvia and the Baltic states overall. This article sheds light on how the publications by LNF were prepared and what resonance they had in Western democracies. It should be noted that the article uses protocols of the LNF board which are kept in the Academic Library of the University of Latvia. The article provides information not found in other sources concerning the editors (translators) of some of the LNF’s publications as well as about the circulation numbers of the publications and distribution channels. The article examines the first publication in 1951 providing the list of persons deported by the Soviets – These Names Accuse – and the making of the reference book Latvia: Country and People (1967). LNF prepared several publications objecting the biased depiction of soldiers from the Baltics interned in Sweden in the novel The Legionnaires (Legionärerna, 1968) by the Swedish writer Per Olov Enquist (1934–2020). Starting in the 1950s and up to the 1980s LNF published – using cover names – several texts of authors living in the occupied Latvia which revealed the truth about the repressions carried out by the Soviet occupation regime and the degraded environment in Latvia. Among these texts the collection of descriptions and photo evidence, The Diary of Occupied Latvia(1976, 1980), by Žanis Skudra (1924–1994) gained a significant resonance.

POPULLSIA DHE VENDBANIMET E ULQINIT NË SHEK. XIX SIPAS DOKUMENTEVE ARKIVORE MALAZEZE

Author(s): Nail Draga / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 1-2/2021

The case of Ulcinj is special in our national history because, due to the pressure of the Great Powers on the Ottoman Empire, this city with its immediate surroundings was handed over to the Montenegrins in November 1880.In the new social circumstances, out of dissatisfaction under the administration of Montenegro, about 1/3 of the Albanian population of Ulcinj emigrated, settling mainly in Shkodra and Durres, which affected the reduction of the Albanian population in this area.On the other hand, the new Montenegrin government had as its state goal the colonization of this area by the Slavic population, respectively Montenegrins, first in the city, and then in its surroundings. Related to this issue, there is an extensive documentation in the State Archives of Montenegro where the subject of treatment is Ulcinj from 1880 onwards, and which is of interest to researchers, scholars and the general public. The paper will present data on the population by settlements and their territorial distribution, according to the national population structure, which proves the colonization of this area by the Slavic (Montenegrin) population, which was the strategic goal of the Montenegrin government in this period of time.

FONDET E GJYKATAVE TË SHERIATIT NË ARKIVIN E KOSOVËS DHE RËNDËSIA E TYRE

Author(s): Sadik Mehmeti / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 1-2/2021

In Kosovo, which by force remained part of the former Serbo-CroatianSlovenian Kingdom (1918-1929) and later under the Yugoslav Kingdom (1929-1941), residents of the Muslim denomination, all issues from the personal status domain, family law, inheritance law and issues related to the waqfs institutions (legates), have resolved through the rules of Sharia law. Therefore special state bodies were organized - the Sharia courts, which, in fact, were part of the state courts and had similarities with them. These courts were also established with the same system in other countries with Muslim population, such as Macedonia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. There were district or first instance Sharia courts and second instance courts or Supreme Sharia courts. The application of Sharia law in Kosovo, since the beginning of the Ottoman rule, and even between the two World Wars, has not been the subject of study of our scholars until today, although this right has been applied for a long time and although there are still a considerable number of documents related to this field. The Kosovo Archives alone contain some fonds with thousands of documents produced by Sharia court offices, which operated in Kosovo between the two World Wars, and such documents have been little researched and not considered. Our paper therefore aims to present some data from these documents and other sources on the role and activity of these courts, as well as to present the fonds of these courts that are preserved in the Archives of Kosovo.

MJETET INFORMATIVE SHKENCORE NË ARKIVA

Author(s): Hysen Azemi / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 1-2/2021

The task of every archive in all countries of the world, without leaving aside our country, is to offer for use archival records that are part of the written cultural heritage. To achieve this, one of the basic tasks of working in archives is to compile information-scientific tools. The compilation of these tools derives from the basic goals and tasks of archives, from the protection of the archival records to their use. Therefore, during the work process in the processing of archival material, it is more than neçessary to compile informative-scientific tools. It should be noted that they are created based on certain principles and criteria, so it should always be borne in mind that they are designed for the purpose of informing the community. Thus, they are part of the archive-community communication. The paper will address some of the informative-scientific tools, as each of them has its own specifics, meaning and role.

RISI TË RUAJTJES SË DOKUMENETEVE ARKIVORE PRANË ASHVE

Author(s): Florenca Stafa,Ergyseda Shpataraku,Dhurata Lamçja / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 1-2/2021

This article aims to bring a new approach to the way the Local State Archive of Elbasan functions as a place of storage of important archival documents from 1945 until today. The documentation in this institution is comprehensive in origin, type, basic material, place and time of creation and in the information they contain. ASHVE is constantly subjected to planning, design and transformation at hierarchical levels in order to maintain important documents which are stored there, but also to increase and improve the quality of service to citizens. The advantages of the Central State Archive for a high quality service for the researcher, find application in all its structures, bringing a real qualitative transformation in the service sector of this institution. The purpose of our research work is to present and interpret the way of collecting and systematizing archival material in different historical periods, comparing the costs of human and financial resources for the institution itself. The highest interest would be the way of digitalization of funds at ASHVE also under the coordination of institutional agreements for the inclusion of students, within projects, but not only.

KOLEKSIONI I FOTOGRAFIVE NË ARKIVIN E KOSOVËS - dokumente për njohjen e Kosovës të shekullit të kaluar -

Author(s): Hatixhe Ahmedi / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 1-2/2021

Within the framework of its activities, the State Agency of Kosovo Archives has its own special unit- Photo Archive, which has an important collection of photographs. Though the Photo Archive of Kosovo was, in fact, created as a separate unit relatively late, (in 2000), it still managed to collect and promote a significant collection of photographs, which today exceeds over 1,500 photographs. In this collection of photographs, most of them belong to the period after the Second World War, respectively the second half of the last century, but there are also photographs from previous years. This collection is important and of even greater value, because it contains preserved photographs of various personalities of that time, the main events that marked that era, monuments and objects that begun to be built and those that were, unfortunately, destroyed and we know about them today only through these photographs; preserved photographs of neighborhoods, bazaars, houses and old streets of our cities, especially Pristina, which do not exist today, photographs of craftsmen and artisans who once practiced their activities in our cities, which have already gone down in history and, since they stopped working, we know them precisely only through these photos, etc. Therefore, based on this fact, our paper talks about the values and importance of the Photo Collection preserved in the Kosovo Archives and which especially helps the visual recognition of Kosovo in the second half of the 20th century; it also talks about the content of this collection, its multiple values, but also about how to preserve, arrange, systematize, use and digitize it and make it available to researchers and other interested parties as easily as possible.

GJEÇOVI, ETNOLOG DHE STUDIUES I SHQUAR I KULTURËS POPULLORE

Author(s): Theodhora Lena / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 1-2/2021

The presented micro thesis is an attempt to identify some of the most important moments of the life of Shtjefen Gjecovi, relying mainly on manuscripts or published documents, which are stored in his fund which contains no. 58. The superficial browsing of the documents of this fund, creates deep impressions and let you understand that we are dealing with a personality, who has left deep traces and has valuable contributions to the developments of the time when he lived, that belong to the decade of the century XIX and the first three decades of the century XX. The time when Gjecovi lived and acted is the most important period of the movement for national liberation, a crucial period for the creation and consolidation of the Independent Albanian State. Gjecovi joined and came in line with the most prominent personalities of the Renaissance who tried to awaken the national unity of Albanians through the development of education and culture in the Albanian Language, through highlighting the well-known traditions, the origin of the Albanian people, of the efforts and results in the struggle for freedom and independence. The solution and practice of the profession of a clergyman gave him the opportunity to know directly the life of the population in the areas where he worked and lived. At the same time being a very attentive observer of everything around him. Gjecovi noted in his notebooks the difficult situation in which the Albanian population lived, the customs and norms which regulated relations between people, the attitude towards government authorities, the attitude towards foreign rulers, etc. All of them he used to conduct written studies and works of scientific, literary and religious character. They are partially published, but mostly preserved in his manuscript in the CSA fund. Gjecovi’s studies and publications cover many fields, but in the presented work are considered mainly those of ethnological character. For the realization of this work I have tried to choose documents that presents as dignifiedly as possible this personality of the Albanian National Movement. At the same time, I think that despite the fact that there is a series of publications about ShtjefenGjecov, which reflects different aspects of his creative and patriotic activity, based on wealth documentary that is in his fund, there is undertake more indepth studies and make known his contribution.

ARKIVI DHE DOMOSDOSHMËRIA E ARKIVIMIT TË MEDIAVE SOCIALE

Author(s): Fatjon Balliu,Rezart Mezani / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 1-2/2021

Archives are witnesses of the past. They provide researchers, historians and experts of different fields with proofs, interpretations and reasons for the actions of the past; archives are the means of communication between generations. These institutions, while offering society access to the records, influence positively the economical and social developments, help into trespassing the cultural, physical and political barriers, what contributes into developing an extensive identity of our society. On the last years, social medias have been transformed into the favorite channels of communication, be it in the private sphere, but also in the public level. Public administration has started to use social media, creating thus a relationship with citizens, aiming the improvement of the service in time and quality. Naturally, the usage of the social medias in the future will be an important source of communication for the future generations. In this paper we will try to analyze the extension of the social medias, the importance of the documents created by them and the importance of their preservation.

METODOLOGJIA E RISKUT, NJË RISI PËR MIRËMENAXHIMININ E VEPRIMTARISË SË TRUPËS INSPEKTUESE TË DREJTORISË SË PËRGJITHSHME TË ARKIVAVE

Author(s): Endrit Musaj,Ylber Ramaj / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 1-2/2021

The inspection of state institutions to audit the progress of the work with documents is a legal obligation, and an important mechanism which affects the improvement of the archival service in state institutions, as well as the normal functioning of their institutional activity. The activity of state institutions is reflected in the documentation that they create, preserve and administer. In order to achieve the perfection of working with documents, the unification of the process and the improvement of the archival service in state institutions, there should be a monitoring system, established accurately and easily accessible by the inspection body. To achieve this aim, the General Directorate of Archives, in addition to the “e-inspection” system set up by the Central Inspectorate for the management of the inspection activity, has designed a system in the form of an efficient “database” for monitoring the state entities. The implementation of this “database” system with the archival data of state institutions, makes the possibility for designing risk-based inspection programs easily more manageable. The purpose of this methodology is to determine the basic principles of risk assessment, during the selection and planning of inspection entities, by the inspection body of the Directorate of Inspection and Training at the General Directorate of Archives. The risk assessment in the inspection process is a procedure that must be carried out continuously, identifying and assessing entities at risk.

ROLI I ADMINISTRATËS PUBLIKE NË MENAXHIMIN DHE RUAJTJEN E DOKUMENTACIONIT PUBLIK

Author(s): Elsa Zyberaj / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 1-2/2021

Written documents, photographs, audio documents, electronically or otherwise are evidence of the time they were created. They eternally preserve the human memory, namely the cultural treasure, the cultural heritage of a people, region or country. The debate on the role of the public administrator in the management and storage of documentation is complex and continues to this day. The purpose of this paper aims to explore the role that public administration has in the management, storage and archiving of public documentation. The development of technology has also brought about a change in the way and administration of documentation. In this perspective, the specific purpose of this paper is the treatment and analysis of the concept of traditional and modern systematization of public documentation in state institutions. The use of historical methods, analysis, comparison will enable the finding of results and recommendations regarding the role of public administration in the management, storage and archiving of public documentation.

VEPRIMTARI TË DREJTORISË SË PËRGJITHSHME TË ARKIVAVE NËNTOR 2020 - TETOR 2021

Author(s): Elsa Saka,Ergi Zaloshnja / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 1-2/2021

02.11.2020. Si pjesë e aktiviteteve të promovimit të trashëgimisë nga Drejtoria e Përgjithshme e Arkivave, në çdo fillim të muajit shfaqet një ekspozitë në muret rrethuese të institucionit, duke përdorur materiale arkivore nga koleksioni ynë për të ilustruar tema të ndryshme dhe për t’i vënë qytetarët në kontakt me trashëgiminë dokumentare të vendit. E radhës është ekspozita e publikuar në vitin 2007 me rastin e 95-vjetorit të pavarësisë.