Native Pattern of Post-Crisis Management in the Archival Centers of Iran: Qualitative Research

The main purpose of the present research is to provide a native pattern of post-crisis management in archives. Identifying the main fields and strategies as well as the main factors that interfere in the management of the indigenous issues of Iran's archives crisis are considered as secondary research objectives. This research was carried out qualitatively with the use of grounded theory and the data were collected through deep semi-structured interviews. Data saturation was a major factor in determining sample size. The research community was crisis management specialists, as well as archives managers in Iran. Data analysis was conducted through theoretical coding, which consists of three stages of open, axial, and selective coding. In the axial coding, the main phenomenon or category was identified and in the selective coding stage, the model was presented. In this pattern, the context, the causative conditions, the main strategies, the interveners (mediating conditions) and the consequences of crisis management in the archives were identified. The results of this pattern include the sections of the causal conditions, strategies, intervening conditions and the field, as well as the outcome of them.The causal conditions are due to factors such as the lack of proper policies at the national level for post-crisis management, the lack of proper and up-to-date equipment to accelerate the rescue of materials and to combat fire, as well as the absence of organizations that do the act of freezing and falsifying records. Intervener conditions and areas is consisted of some issues such as the lack of a comprehensive crisis plan for the post-crisis phase in the archives, compliance with standards in the reconstruction of records by specialists, the use of disinfection and acidification methods to protect information resources against pests, use of the crisis map in the post-crisis phase and issues related to manpower. According to research findings, in archives, strategies such as modern resilience training, restoration of records, evaluation of building aftershocks, standardization of buildings and equipment, reconstruction and restoration of documents damaged by biological crises by installers, and coordinating with organizations for the restoration of records at the city and state level due to accelerated reconstruction of records should be used. Eventually, the aftermath of the crisis management process in Iran's archives will have the effect of eliminating the effects of crises and returning to the pre-crisis stage.