فصلنامه گنجینه اسناد
پیاپی 125 (بهار 1401)

The purpose of the research is to investigate the role of teenagers as an important social group, their movement and its effectiveness in publicizing the Islamic Revolution.

Method and Research Design: 

Archival records and Oral history of Isfahan from1972 to 1979 were investigated.

The role of secondary school students of Isfahan in publicizing the revolution and the participation of various citizens of the city were fundamental and very effective in the final stage of the movement. Students played the main role in bringing people to the streets, especially since November 1978, and thus were the leaders in the final process of street struggles.

Kings and statesmen of the Qajar established military factories and produced weapons and cartridges in order to strengthen the military forces, develop the war industry, and fulfill the needs of the Iranian army. In this regard, some military factories were established in Tehran, Tabriz, and Esfahan. The purpose of this research is to investigate and analyze the performance of these factories from 1807 to 1922.

Method and Research Design:

  Library resources including books and newspapers, and archival records were studied and analyzed.

  At the beginning of the Qajar period, especially during the Iran-Russia wars, the performance of military factories was not efficient enough, but from the time of Nasir al-Din Shah, gunfire and cartridge factories played an important role. Despite the lack of self-sufficiency in this field, the factories succeeded in fulfilling some needs of the Iranian army, military equipment imports were reduced, and military industries developed significantly.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the position of tourism organization advertising in development plans (the third plan to the sixth one) and to identify the tools that the Pahlavi government employed to advertise  tourism.

Method and Research Design: 

Research method is historical analysis; so archival records and administrative correspondence were described and analyzed.

The results of this study show that, despite the various tourist attractions of Iran, the political policy of the Second Pahlavi government was less focused on advertising to attract tourists till the mid-1940s. This was because the government believed that before taking any action, facilities needed to welcome tourists must be provided in the country.  As a result, tourism publications and advertisements were taken into account after organizing and implementing development plans, roads expansion, tourism facilities, and training services. Tourist guidebooks, brochures in different languages, road and highways maps, posters and postcards of the country's historical monuments, together with videos and photos of the country's tourism hubs, as well as domestic and foreign exhibitions were all employed. Inviting journalists and cultural individuals from other countries added to the different ways and means of advertising the tourism industry in the Second Pahlavi period.

The purpose of this research is to define the effect of class affiliation (clerics and merchants) on the type of Sari endowment expenditures in the Qajar period.

Method and Research Design: 

 352 Endowment Records of merchants and clerics were described, analyzed and compared.

The endowments of merchants and clerics were mainly land, houses, shops and caravanserai. Clerics mostly endowed land whereas merchants endowed shops. These endowments were used for Imam Hussein’s ceremonies - the third Shiite Imam - like feeding the mourners, feeding fasting people in Ramazan, repairing and maintaining mosques and schools, alms and donations to the poor and Ibn al-Sabeel. The political and social developments of the period did not change the type of endowment expenditures. Most of the endowments belong to the time of Nasser al-Din Shah (1848 –1896). Also, most of the endowments were recorded in the lunar months of Rajab and Muharram. The endowments were entrusted to the person who endowed, his children or the clerics of the region. This indicates a kind of family system and the scholarly system in the management of endowments.

Seals are important tools for experts to describe archives and for researchers to describe and recognize old records. The purpose of this research is to produce a reference source for the seals of the Qajar Chancellors.

Library research and a checklist  used to investigate the edicts in the Qajar records of Contemporary Historical Research Institute and other archives. 

The texts of the seals were derived from the verses of the Qur'an, dhikr, prayer, nickname, title, and personal name from the beginning of the Qajar period to the middle of the Nasserite period. From the presidency of Mirza Agha Khan Nouri, the word "Chancellor" began to appear in the text. Atabak Azam and Vazir Azam - both have the same meaning- became popular in the seals in the Mozaffari period. In the seals of the Mohammad Ali Shah period, the words Atabak Azam and Sadra Azam were observed. From the Nasserite period, the symbol of lion and sun appeared in some seals. The shapes of the seals were various - rectangle, square, oval, octagon, and pear - and the script of most of them was Nasta'liq. The languages of the texts were Arabic, Persian / Arabic, and Persian.  54 seals of 24 chancellors were described and explained thoroughly in this research, which can be a reference for archivists and researchers to recognize the seals of dignitaries of the Qajar.

The purpose of this research is to investigate the effects of using multimedia as a technology-based instructional tool on the reading skills and vocabulary knowledge of Iranian archivists, and their self-regulated learning behavior in an ESP course for Archival Science.

The research was conducted following a mixed method design. Forty-eight archivists of the National Library and Archives of Iran (NLAI), divided into two control and experimental groups based on the convenience sampling, participated in this study. Data was collected through a self-regulated questionnaire, vocabulary and reading comprehension pretests and post-tests in the quantitative phase, and stimulated recall sessions in the qualitative phase. The two methods of task-based versus task-based+multimedia were applied to compare the effects of multimedia use in a 10-sessions ESP course.

Using multimedia could considerably improve reading comprehension and vocabulary knowledge. Also, it could increase archivists’ self-regulation abilities. Among the eight critical factors affecting self-regulated learning, task-strategy was used the most, whereas self-reinforcement was used the least. The study concluded that using teaching methods and applying instructional tools that can satisfy ESP learners’ specific educational needs in their workplace, and activate their self-regulated learning behavior in ESP courses, would improve language learning and skills development.

The purpose is to identify the current status of the records acquisition process in the National Archives of Iran and its challenges, and design optimal processes on the basis of comprehensive records management system.

Method and Research Design: 

Both qualitative and analytical surveys were used as the research method. The research was accomplished in two stages. In the first stage, five expert archivists of the National Archives of Iran were interviewed and in the second stage, 21 Employees of the National Archives of Iran filled out a questionnaire.

Based on the respondents’ point of view, the designed optimal processes in the records acquisition section covered all current processes, and no  significant differences were found.