Course: Town Archives in the Czech Republic

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Course title Town Archives in the Czech Republic
Course code KAPV/PV308
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Ledvinka Václav, doc. PhDr. CSc.
Course content
The course in full-time form includes the following topics in individual weeks: 1. Medieval and early modern origins of municipal archives 2. Scientific archival science in the urban environment - theory, methodology, institutionalization 3. City archives in the Czech Republic 4. Organization, management and financing of city archives 5. Personnel factor - important representatives of municipal archival science 6. Types of archival materials, archive files, funds and collections in city archives - city archives as part of NAD 7. Basic and specific methods of work in city archives 8. Cooperation with originators, fieldwork and file service 9. Disposal management in the conditions of city archives 10. Modern technologies, technical equipment, digitization and electronic archiving in city archives 11. Benefits, outputs and social significance of the activities of city archives 12. City archives in the Czech Republic - comparison and confrontation 13. City archives in Europe - comparison and confrontation 14. Professional excursion - Archives of the City of Prague (alternatively Archives of the City of Brno)

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to deepen and concretize students' general theoretical knowledge in the field of archival science in the form of specialized lectures and seminars focusing on the area of city archives and, more generally, the entire group of archives of territorial self-governing units. The genesis of city archives in the Czech lands in the broader European context is analyzed in more detail and the theoretical foundations and historical roots of the current legislative regulation and the factual position of these archives are explained. In the seminar part (supplemented by a professional excursion), students are introduced to the historical role, significance and current agenda of five existing city archives in the Czech Republic, the history and current integration of other originally city archives (within the existing SOA and SOkA) and, in particular, the irreplaceable role of this group of archives in the area of supervision of the file service, pre-archival care, shredding management and enrichment of the national archival heritage.
The student acquires knowledge about the archives of territorial self-governing units.
Prerequisites
None

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
None
Recommended literature
  • Jana Čermáková et alii. Městské archivy a městští archiváři. Brno, 2010.
  • Jana Hoffmannová - Jana Pražáková. Biografický slovník archivářů českých zemí. Praha, 2000.
  • Ludmila Sulitková. Archivnictví a spisová služba. Ústí nad Labem, 2017.
  • Václav Ledvinka. Písemné prameny ? nové technologie ? pokrok poznání ?, in: X. sjezd českých historiků Ostrava 14.- 16. 9. 2011, sv. 5, hl. redakce sjezdového protokolu Aleš Zářický ? Petr Kadlec ? Michaela Závodná, Ostrava 2017, s. 23- 29.. Ostrava, 2017.
  • Václav Ledvinka. Prag 1989-1990. Übergang von der Volksverwaltung zur demokratischen Selbstverwaltung, in: Inseln der bürgerlichen Autonomie? Traditionelle Selbsverwaltungsmilieus in den Umbruchsjahren 1944/45 und 1989/90, Jiří Pešek-Tomáš Nigrin (edd.), (Prager Schriften zur Geschichte und zum Zeitgeschehen, Band 1), Frankfurt a. M. 2009, s. 183-197.. Frankfurt am Main, 2009.


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