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16919 - Modern and Contemporary Archive Administration for Special Purposes

Academic Year 2021/2022

                
                        Docente:
                        Federica Rossi
                    
                        Credits:
                        6
                    
                        SSD:
                        M-STO/08
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Ravenna
                        
                            Corso:
                            Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
                            Library and Archive Science (cod. 9077)

                            Teaching resources on Virtuale

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student will be able to recognize the different kind of archives and be able to describe their features and constitutive funds; he will also be able to use inventories and to look for the sources useful for historical research.

Course contents

The course aims to offer a broad overview of the origin, development and management of both public (state and non-state) and private (personal, family and business) archives in the Italian context. In the private archives, in particular, students will be offered concrete examples of documentation and archival inventories, both paper and digital. There will also be exercises aimed at familiarizing with the description of archives and producers and with the primary sources.

Readings/Bibliography

Archivistica speciale, a cura di G. Bonfiglio-Dosio, Padova, Cluep, 2011, pp. 13-96, 243-274, 363-434
Martorano, Gli archivi d’impresa dalla carta al digitale, «Archivi», v. XII, n.1 (gen.-giu. 2017), pp. 47-78 (http://media.regesta.com/dm_0/ANAI/anaiCMS//ANAI/000/0340/ANAI.000.0340.0029.pdf)
G. Nicolai, Selezionare per conservare: la costruzione della memoria negli archivi ecclesiastici tra storia e prassi, «Bibliothecae», v. 8 (2019), n. 2, pp. 255-296 (https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2283-9364/10369)
De Pasquale, Gli archivi privati in biblioteca. Tipologie, acquisizione, trattamento e descrizione, «JLIS.it», v. 10 (2019), n. 3, pp. 34-46 (http://dx.doi.org/10.4403/jlis.it-12569)

Optional texts:

F. Valacchi, Gli archivi tra storia, uso e futuro, Milano, Bibliografica, 2020
L. Pezzica, L'archivio liberato. Guida teorico-pratica ai fondi storici del Novecento, Milano, Bibliografica, 2020
Zanni Rosiello, Gli archivi nella società contemporanea, Bologna, il Mulino, 2009
R. Navarrini, Gli archivi privati, Lucca, Civita Editoriale, 2005

For non-attending students, the program must consist of basic texts and an optional text of your choice. In the case of students who do not have basic notions of archiving, it is possible to replace the optional text with:

F. Valacchi, Diventare archivisti, Milano, Bibliografica, 2021

Teaching methods

Frontal lesson in Italian and exercises on documents and on the use of inventories and other archival tools.

Two visits will be organized:

19/11/21: Archivio di Stato di Ravenna
01/12/21: Soprintendenza archivistica di Bologna

Assessment methods

The exam will focus on the course program and, if the student requests it, on the content of one of the optional readings. The exercises, if carried out in writing, will contribute to the student evaluation.

Teaching tools

Power Point and bibliographic information for further information. The material will be shared in the 'Virtual Learning Resources' section. It should be noted that the initiatives (educational visits, seminars, conferences, book presentations ...) indicated and / or organized are to be considered supplementary to the teaching and will be recognized in the examination.

Office hours

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