فصلنامه گنجینه اسناد
پیاپی 81 (بهار 1390)

In the relations between Iran and the newly-founded Soviet regime, in late 1919 and in 1920, it has normally been assumed that the attack of the Bolshevik forces was merely because of the presence of the troops of Denikin and British forces in the Caspian Sea and Gilan. In this research, the authors want to propose that the attack of the Bolsheviks to Anzali had ideological and expansionist reasons and the presence of the White Army was merely an excuse by the Bolsheviks for hiding their actual objectives. The facts of the Bolshevik's attack are revealed in the records of the British Foreign Office related to the mentioned years. Furthermore, the precious work of Moisie Persits which is written based on the records of the Ministry of External Relations of Soviet Union, and unfortunately little attention is attached to this work, has important information with regard to our research. By studying the mentioned records and with the help of other resources, it is revealed that the Bolsheviks attacked Iran with the ambitious aim of expanding the revolution to the east. This attack led Iran to step into modern international diplomacy and to take the issue to the League of Nations. Records indicate that Iran made great efforts to fight for its rights but it was the economic negotiations of London-Moscow that released Iran and England from the newly-founded Soviet government. The researchers aim to shed some light on an important part of the relations between Iran and the Soviet Union by studying the records of the British Foreign office and with the help of some Iranian records.

On the verge of the First World War, the English connected the national railroad network of India by India's Baluchistan to Dozdab in Iran's Baluchistan in order to keep the connection line between Iran and India. After this and when the transport of goods to India accelerated, a number of Indian Siks immigrated to Dozdab, whose name later changed to Zahedan. But the residence of Siks next to Muslims was followed by some conflicts and rivalries that were affected by the political and religious conditions of India. Using the comparative and analytic method and based on library resources and records, this paper aims to answer this question: Were there any tangible changes in Zahedan before and after the independence of India - as the main home of the Siks – that was the consequence of the presence of Sik immigrants in this region? A comparative analysis of three variables i.e. the economic, social and religious conditions of the immigrating group to the region and the effect of the political and religious conditions of the destination and source of immigration on these three variables indicates that the immigration of a minority of non-Muslims and non-Iranians to Zahedan was due to the formation of the customs office, the connection of the railroad of India to Dozdab and also because of economic goals. The economic opportunities in Zahedan were more or less rooted in the economic and commercial policies in India which had direct effect on the economic development of Zehedan. The Indian immigrants, especially the Siks, achieved substantial profit by taking advantage of these policies and in some cases they caused local merchandisers to be deprived form such profits. Following the changes in the economic policies of India, which were mainly due to religious and political conflicts, the status of immigration completely changed and with the reduction of economic opportunities in Zahedan, the customs of this city which was developing became stagnant.

Records are one of the valuable historical resources of the Safavid Era which may shed light on many historical ambiguities of this era, including financial issues about which there is a shortage of information resources. This paper studies the information of the Ashr-o Dah-Nim records available in the Astan Qods Razavi Library with an analytic approach and in two different sections. In one section it studies the form, content and various information values of records and in the other it studies issues such as the meaning and concept of Ashr-o Dah-Nim in the Safavid Era, where it was received, how it was spent etc. The findings of this research show that most of the information available in the Ashr-o Dah-Nim records is not mentioned anywhere else and these records are the only valuable resources in this regard. The information found in these records can be used by researchers as a valuable resource to study different aspects of the administrative and financial history of this era.

Louis Castaldi was an Italian physician who was employed by the government and the royal court of Qajar during 1876-1902 as a teacher of medicine in Dar al-Funun and also as the special physician and surgeon of the Qajar court. Then he was appointed as the offcial consul of Iran in Milan during 1902-1911. There are no comprehensive reports about the medical activities of Castaldi in Iran and little information is available on this issue. But there are fifty three administrative records in the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Library and Archives of Iran which portray the nine years of Castaldi's activities in the position of Iran's consul. The most important issues discussed in these records include: how Castaldi was chosen and appointed as Iran's consul in Millan, being the representative of Iran in the International exhibition of goods in Millan, rejecting the suggestion of Iran's government to be Iran's representative in the international congress on Tuberculosis and the medical exhibition of Rome, and his conflicts with the governments after the constitutional revolution that didnt pay his salary which was set by Mozafar al-Din Shah. This research studies these issues in two historical eras i.e. before and after the constitutional revolution, with an analytic approach.

This research aims to evaluate the level of excellence of the Library and Archives Administration of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting Organization (IRIB) and to determine its weak and strong points according to the criteria of EFQM Excellence Model. This research is descriptive and uses a survey approach. The main means for collecting data is the standard questionnaire of the EFQM model. The research population consists of managers, officials and staff of the Library and Archives Administration of IRIB and the statistical sample is the entire statistical population. From a total of 50 managers, officials and experts in this administration, 40 individuals participated in this research. The findings of this research show that the Library and Archives Administration of IRIB, with a point of 295.83, has the lowest level of excellence and is not in any of the levels for the EFQM Excellence Award. The findings indicate that the Society Results criteria has the highest point (56.7 percent) and the Customer Results criteria has the lowest point (16.26 percent). Moreover, there is a meaningful difference between the final results of the Leadership, People, Customer Results, People Results, and Society Results criteria while there is no meaningful difference between the following criteria: Partnerships & Resources, Processes, and Key Results. Originality/Value: Up to now, there has never been any research carried out to evaluate the function of the Library and Archives Administration as the sponsor of all the archives and libraries of the different provincial channels of IRIB around the country and to study the archive as an institution different from libraries and an organization which includes a combination of these two and their requirements. If we add to the abovementioned issues the importance, position and the impact of the national broadcasting on the majority of the society and add the role of archives and libraries in improving its programs, it seem that this research will have a prominent role in IRIB's excellence and in helping it to reach its goals.

this paper aims to offer a suggested plan for a handbook for describing Persian non-book resources based on a comparison of international rules and standards. Population: the studied population includes five standards i.e. the second edition of Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR2), Resource Description and Access (RDA), IASA, FIAF cataloguing rules and the General International Standard Archival Description (ISAD(G)). The rules used in each standard were compared in eight groups of electronic, cartographic, print, three-dimensional, audio, graphic, microforms and video and projection resources in 53 different kinds of non-book resources collected in the National Library and Archives of Iran. Methodology/Approach: this is an applied research and has been carried out with the library and comparative survey method. Checklists were used to collect data and the Friedman statistical test is used for data analysis, and a single variable t-test is used to confirm the hypothesis. In all resource groups except for the video and projection resources group, Anglo- American rules, RDA and IASA comply with each other while the three mentioned standards and FIAF do not show any compliance in the video and projection resources group. In the end, based on the findings of the research and a comparison of the standards, the proposed plan for a handbook is presented.

The aim of this paper is to identify the definitions provided for the word "record", to qualitatively evaluate the usage domain of each definition and to study the possibility for offering a comprehensive definition for "record", regardless of the special definition and usage domain of each word. The other objective of this research is to discuss the definition of "record" from the viewpoint of archives. Methodology/Approach: This research uses the library method. In this article, relevant resources are identified and the definitions provided for records are collected, categorized and critically studied. In this method, the definitions and their range of application are qualitative studied. the findings of this research show that the word "record", in addition to its general meaning, has been used in the administrative literature of Iran and in different disciplines. This has caused this word to have various applications and therefore sometimes there have been some misunderstandings between different users. When the special meanings of "record" are intended, this differences and varieties in definitions are more evident. Limitations: in previous research on the study of records, the definition of record has not been discussed independently and comprehensively. As indicated in its references, in this research the required information was collected from resources of various disciplines including archival studies, library and information science, administrative science, commerce, law, politics, history and anthropology. Value: in the present paper, the word "record" and its application in different disciplines of knowledge (in Persian) are discussed. In addition to identifying different definitions, the possibility for the interdisciplinary use of these definitions is studied. This is while this issue has not yet been studied with this approach and this broadness. This paper, which is related to the field of semantics, will help researchers in further studies in identifying types of records and defining different archival material and resources.