Archival Roles

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ARCHIVE PROFESSIONALS

1.0 Abstract

Archival education has progressed greatly in the past 30 years. The numbers of archival programs, full-time contract track faculty and courses offered have all increased exponentially. Archival science has no longer seen as a sub-specialization of library science or history and the effort to legitimize archives as a separate field worthy of detailed inquiry at both Master’s and doctoral level have succeeded. However, the convergence of the information discipline has called the distinction between related disciplines into question. This poses contain both challenges and opportunities for archival education. According to Yakel (2004), the article places archival education in

It means that, the archivists need an experience on guiding the researchers through the process of conducting archival research. According to Krause (2010), knowledge of local catalog, descriptive aids, and the latest navigation tools give archivists an advantage in teaching how to use primary sources to students. Active learning is a catchword that is frequently found in information literacy and education literature.

According to Krause (2010), the archivists had trouble identifying specific learning outcome for the researchers, instead hoping that they would come away with positive impressions about the repository of the materials and a willingness to return. Archivists also did not practice assessment on a consistent basis. According to Kallberg (2012), archivists need to have long experiences in how to process archives using arrangements and description principal in order to make them accesible to the public. It means that, archivists need to have the skills on navigation and stuff and also experts with it.

4.0 Recommended

Archivist should at least have knowledge about the primary sources in archive. According to Krause (2010), although primary sources are integral to teaching history, the role of archivist in facilitating the discovery and use of these sources is entirely missing in the literature on historical inquiry and history education.

Archivist should always care about the primary sources that available in the archive so that the records or data of the information can be secured properly and can be kept according to their period of time. The types of primary sources which is raw data means, the information is original and in a full format. The information also must be kept with the truly facts and did not based on one person only. For example, the police report data in the police station must be consists from both side, whether it is the victim or the criminal. By doing this, when the family need their data, archivists can give them without any