فصلنامه گنجینه اسناد
پیاپی 96 (زمستان 1393)

After the collapse of the emirate of the Ardalans, who had governed Kurdistan since the time of Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar (1831 –1896), Kurdistan underwent a period of chaos. Abbas Khan, a member of the branch of Ardalans in Rawansar and Jawanrood region, near the Jaafs, embarked on a campaign to revive the power of Ardalans. This paper reports the efforts of Abbas Khan, known as Sardar Rashid, the last of the Ardalans, to revive their emirate in Kurdistan in the last years of Qajars and early years of the Pahlavi rise.Method/Research Design: Library resources and archival records have been studied. Lack of understanding of the development of politics at the national level, failure to establish a working relationship with the tribes and clans in the area, and the popularity of the idea of having a powerful central government pursuing the policy of ending tribal dominance were some of the reasons for Abass Khan's failure. Later years of his life were a mixture of battles, escapes and eventually surrender and death in exile outside Kurdistan.

Disputes between Iranian government and the Ottomans on the ownership of Shiat Imams shrine's treasures during Ahmad Shah Gajar’s (1909-1925) reign is traced based on archival documentsMethod/Research Design: Archival documents are examined and library resources are consulted. As a Shia' state, the Iranian government, by resorting to diplomacy and seeking the support of Shia' Ulema of the region, succeeded in defusing the Ottomans’ effort to confiscate the treasures.

Lease contracts may be legal, financial, private, or state documents. They can be utilized in writing social and economic history. This research aims to explain the value of such documents for historical research. This paper describes their structure in order to facilitate better description in archives.Method/Research Design: 250 leases held in the historical archives are examined.Findings and Leases contain principal as well as secondary elements. Principal elements are written based on Sharia' and have a fixed structure. Secondary elements reflect community traditions. Like other contracts, there were instructions which scribers employed in preparing leases. Leases contain valuable data such as genealogical, geographical, historical and legal information.

Malfoofeh-Farman [Enveloped Decree] is one kind of royal document belonging to the Qajarid era. It could be utilized for the purpose of political, social, real estate, and legal historical research. Method/Research design: Documents held in Iranian archival databases are studied. Malfoofeh-Farmanّs reflect political, real estate, legal, and jurisprudential matters during Qajarid era. Extracting data from such records helps social history research.

To identify factors causing damage to archival as well as library materials held in government departments’ repositories, in order to develop criteria for preservation practices consistent with international standards, thereby diminishing the costs of future disinfecting and repair, in particular damages caused by human factors.Method/Research Design: Pollution data resulting from the monitoring of, and sampling from, external repositories of 17 departments, and environmental conditions of 63 repositories, was identified and compared with CFU. Suggestions were made for the improvement of the situation in each the organization. The temperature, humidity and light levels of the repositories were measured. Also, the number of micro organisms in the air were examined and checked against the standards, then tagged and analyzed using SPSS application. As the data did not follow a normal distribution, Spearman correlation was employed to correlate factors such as light and temperature with the presence of fungi. Standards of light levels, humidity and temperature are not met in the majority of repositories. Lack of meaningful correlation between humidity and fungi is an indication of the fact that humidity in 87% of repositories is below standard.

Examining metadata standards for museum objects and proposing museum metadata elements for museums in Iran.Method/Research Design: Elements of existing metadata standards for museum objects were identified. Then views of 30 professionals were sought regarding the significance of each element. Professionals considered 230 metadata elements highly important. Among such standards 96 elements were shared in 2 to 9 cases. More than 70% of elements were considered important and needed by Iranian museums.

Earthquakes often cause extensive and irreversible devastation to cultural heritage. Crisis management plans as well as preparedness for emergencies make it possible to save time when disaster occurs. Being prepared for earthquake and dealing with it falls within the obligations of national and provincial local organizations. In fact, such executive organizations are either state or private offices which can and must take fundamental steps to save people and cultural properties at the time of incidents.Method/Research Design: Library studies, consultation with trained groups, benefiting from their experiences in crises, documentation and recording of current safety conditions within museums were used to compile this research Through the development of a rescue scenario, a module for the management of crises caused by earthquake, and other managerial measures for safety, is proposed.