فصلنامه گنجینه اسناد
پیاپی 74 (تابستان 1388)

In the present essay a record will be dealt which founded recently in one of records centre in judiciary regarding Ali- Akbar –e Davar. The document is the verdict of Supreme Court concerning Mohammad-Ali Aynakchi who was accused to slap and insult Davar, the then Judicature Minister. Beside the verdict of Supreme Court, there is a petition written by the accused’s family addressed to the presidents of the court; it contains some interesting points about social-political conditions of that phase of Iran’s contemporary history. Furthermore, the function of Davar during his presence in political scene as well as some points respecting Iran’s social, political, and economic conditions will be discussed.

The beginning of the year 1275 H.Q. was the beginning of new changes in Iran’s administrative system, and that was omission of the chancellor post, and constitution of governmental council. The council included six ministries, home office, foreign office, judiciary, and the treasury, defense and endowment ministries. Council lifetime was ended in the year 1288 H.Q. by order of Naser-al Din shah. Some bylaws approved by governmental council as well as the king in the years without chancellor. In recent years, the National Library of Iran has bought two important bylaws which will be dealt in the essay. The first is the original copy of the Naser-al Din shah’s bylaw issued in 1279 H.Q. and the second is part of Mostofi family’s records and its date is 1282H.Q. and indicates the efforts of the king at replacing the council with a triple commission.

Here, the role of Azod-ol molk is examined in events after Tehran Conquest during more than a year. Since he was one of the old personages of Qajar court who had many posts and offices, his political shifting toward leaders of revolution of Constitutionalism in Iran and his close cooperation with them is interesting. His political shifting caused to be appointed regency of Ahmad shah, one of the most important posts in that time, by the most Constitutionalismseeking leaders with any kind of tendency, from left to right. It is concluded that it is Azod-ol Molk’s moderate character and his arbitrative spirit had the basic role in broad consensus of all frictions of Constitutionalism on him, although he didn’t enjoy sufficient understanding of internal and foreign affairs of Iran.

The book Jahan-nama is one of documents in them have been pointed out Persian Gulf as a name and its geographical limits. This book has been offered to United Nations during Iraq-Iran war to prove that Persian Gulf belongs to Iran. This essay is dealt with introducing Kateb- e Chalabi, Turkish geographer and his famous work, Jahan-nama in the field of geography.

The document considered here is a land contract in the year 1180 H.Q. related to the Karim Khan Zand reign which created in the city Zanjan. In the discussed document, the buyer is Zolfaghar Khan-e Afshar, one of local governors and the sellers are a group of landlords in the area. This document identified amongst a mass of paper during restoration of the building Zolfaghari in Zanjan. The names of lands and gardens as well as the names of witnesses who signed the contract are seen in the context and margins of the document. The document is typically important.

In this essay in order to investigate the cycle of Electronic Records Management (ERM) four phases, creation, maintaining, disseminating, and administrating of records are explained. Electronic Records Management requirements including records retention schedules, identifying and archiving records as well as retrieving, transferring, and disposal of records are amongst the subject have been discussed. Needs of ERM system, creating backup copies of stored records as well as storing these copies are the next subject discussed.

We can account confronting ways with upsets and crises in the line of surviving historical and cultural remains one of museum tasks. The present article emphasizing the importance of crisis management in strategic planning on preventive protection in archives and museums considers the principles of crisis management including its concept and strategies in archives and museums schematically. The usage of crisis management in archives and museums are discussed in four parts: 1.to prevent occurring crisis; 2.the techniques of confrontation crisis; 3. the strategy of confrontation crisis and required measurements after beginning the crisis. There are some suggestions regarding confronting the crisis in archives and museums’ repositories in the end.

Developing special kind of records called electronic records which have managerial, legal, cultural, and historical aspects accounts for raising a multidiscipline field called Electronic Records Management (ERM). ERM that is supposed to respond contemporary world’s challenges is considered by archivists increasingly. While in traditional approach archivists were assigned cultural responsibility, in the prospect of ERM, in addition to former task they should service businesses and organizations to help to actualize electronic government and organizational knowledge management in organizations. In the present essay, electronic records issues, the history of ERM, and records management systems are offered; further, the difference between electronic records management and electronic document management as well as requirements of electronic records and electronic records management as a research field be discussed in detail.

The present essay is going to introduce administrative automation and digitalized national archives generally and to discuss the interplay between them. In addition to the necessity and forte of administrative automation, the challenges caused by it in digital archives, the mutual point of automation and archives, and the kinds of electronic records are explained. It’s concluded that governmental records are part of Iran’s National Archives, then it’s necessary the experts of this organization aware of the value of records and the importance of administrative automation. It’s also said that administrative automation included some electronic records whose preservation requires some consideration and special management because of their value and validity.