With many illustrations (which makes its success), it is numbered 536 in the collection Discoveries Gallimard, it's about 130 pages, full title is " Archives. memory of France, "the author needs no introduction, it is Jean-Pierre Babelon, but it is not alas ... only
At the risk of offending many friends and colleagues of the NA, this is a book waiting for several decades (since the "first language" "in the BNF had appeared ten years ago) and like the new law Archives (also expected for 30 years), gave birth to a mouse (and ugly at that).
For in reality, beyond the knowledge of the collection that I personally find hideous, formless and repulsive (the images are superimposed on the text, which become the fact, illegible), poorly made and deformed (text and margins merge), it is the form, but it gets worse: the background, material written in short, it is downright shameful on the part of professionals.
" Archives. memory of France "is stuffed with errors of all kinds ...
The summary is very tempting though:" laws, decrees, deeds, financial records, letters, telegrams, handwritten notes, maps, posters and photographs, recordings sound, film, digital files ... All these documents are intended to one day come to "Archive" (...).. modest or prestigious, they are the living memory of France. How this heritage has enriched it over time? By what criteria is it a document preserved or eliminated? How and by whom was it classified, inventoried, preserved, studied and valued? For whom and for what purpose? So many questions answered Jean-Pierre Babelon. Emeritus guide, we discover the unknown world archives.
In fact, the authors, it's more ... the world unknown archives ...
Add as [the] piece is " a word little used in the twentieth century who preferred the document "perplexing. And further, limit a document archive to " a list, a letter, report or" the smallest element archives "leaves me wondering: what definition to give then a sound document, a document or audio-visual a digital document?
Then we limit the function of a secretary of documentation (sdoc) as that of " help responsible for Documentary Studies (Ced)"! (This is on page 114). And why not take their coffee or mopping the floor (!). I know many colleagues who are not happy to read such all the nonsense that in most cases, are more resourceful sdoc that Ced that for 9/10th of them were mere librarians, who with a stroke of a pen (ministerial) integrated Ced's bodies 10 years ago (before this prestigious body mass integration of librarians as the corps had only a handful of research officers) and I do not even speak individual contractors and contractors who have maintained a small half hour before a jury of junk and have well integrated body of Ced ... we had, moreover, the nerve to call this simple maintenance ... "contest" competition "Tree" to be precise!. Yet it was enough to Babelon and others to open and read a couple of seconds the missions and responsibilities of each body they describe (Decree of October 25, 1995 for sdoc and Decree of 19 March 1998 for Ced) to avoid write such nonsense ...
Okay I will stop here, but wonder why (page 75) citing the name of Jacques Monicat as one of the creators of the section "private archives" in 1949? Bertrand Gille, one of the leading specialists in business archives, I agree, but Jacques was Monicat certainly a Chartist recognized for his work in the funds of central minute of Parisian notaries and secondarily as treasurer of the FFA and historian in the History of French people ... but no more! So here
yet another "first language" "a bright future ... in a library setting.
At the risk of offending many friends and colleagues of the NA, this is a book waiting for several decades (since the "first language" "in the BNF had appeared ten years ago) and like the new law Archives (also expected for 30 years), gave birth to a mouse (and ugly at that).
For in reality, beyond the knowledge of the collection that I personally find hideous, formless and repulsive (the images are superimposed on the text, which become the fact, illegible), poorly made and deformed (text and margins merge), it is the form, but it gets worse: the background, material written in short, it is downright shameful on the part of professionals.
" Archives. memory of France "is stuffed with errors of all kinds ...
The summary is very tempting though:" laws, decrees, deeds, financial records, letters, telegrams, handwritten notes, maps, posters and photographs, recordings sound, film, digital files ... All these documents are intended to one day come to "Archive" (...).. modest or prestigious, they are the living memory of France. How this heritage has enriched it over time? By what criteria is it a document preserved or eliminated? How and by whom was it classified, inventoried, preserved, studied and valued? For whom and for what purpose? So many questions answered Jean-Pierre Babelon. Emeritus guide, we discover the unknown world archives.
In fact, the authors, it's more ... the world unknown archives ...
Add as [the] piece is " a word little used in the twentieth century who preferred the document "perplexing. And further, limit a document archive to " a list, a letter, report or" the smallest element archives "leaves me wondering: what definition to give then a sound document, a document or audio-visual a digital document?
Then we limit the function of a secretary of documentation (sdoc) as that of " help responsible for Documentary Studies (Ced)"! (This is on page 114). And why not take their coffee or mopping the floor (!). I know many colleagues who are not happy to read such all the nonsense that in most cases, are more resourceful sdoc that Ced that for 9/10th of them were mere librarians, who with a stroke of a pen (ministerial) integrated Ced's bodies 10 years ago (before this prestigious body mass integration of librarians as the corps had only a handful of research officers) and I do not even speak individual contractors and contractors who have maintained a small half hour before a jury of junk and have well integrated body of Ced ... we had, moreover, the nerve to call this simple maintenance ... "contest" competition "Tree" to be precise!. Yet it was enough to Babelon and others to open and read a couple of seconds the missions and responsibilities of each body they describe (Decree of October 25, 1995 for sdoc and Decree of 19 March 1998 for Ced) to avoid write such nonsense ...
Okay I will stop here, but wonder why (page 75) citing the name of Jacques Monicat as one of the creators of the section "private archives" in 1949? Bertrand Gille, one of the leading specialists in business archives, I agree, but Jacques was Monicat certainly a Chartist recognized for his work in the funds of central minute of Parisian notaries and secondarily as treasurer of the FFA and historian in the History of French people ... but no more! So here
yet another "first language" "a bright future ... in a library setting.
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