Information Management in Special Archives of Kolkata A Case Study

Sanjukta Mitra; Swapna Banerjee

doi:10.14429/djlit.39.3.13914

Sanjukta Mitra Rani Birla Girls’ College, Kolkata – 700 017, India
Swapna Banerjee University of Calcutta, Kolkata – 700073, India

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14429/djlit.39.3.13914

Keywords: Special archives, Documentation, Preservation and conservation, Digitisation

Abstract

Archives are the important information centre along with libraries and museums in respect to preservation of historical documents. And similar to libraries archives also exist in different categories like academic, special, governmental, newspaper and private archives. This article is dealing with one of this category and that is Special Archives. The research area that has been chosen for the data collection is central part of Kolkata. These archives are being studied to know how they are organising the documents and preserving them for future posterity. Finally, the paper tries to highlight the problems these traditional archives are facing in this digital era, especially handling of documents for digitising the archival materials. The problems are mainly related to skills and financial support for digitising the archival documents.

Author Biographies

Sanjukta Mitra, Rani Birla Girls’ College, Kolkata – 700 017, India

Dr Sanjukta Mitra received her PhD from university of Calcutta. Presently working as a Librarian in Rani Birla Girls’ College, Kolkata. She is also a guest teacher at Department of Library and Information Science, university of Calcutta. She has published articles in journals and conference proceedings. And she has also published her first book on archives of Kolkata.

Swapna Banerjee, University of Calcutta, Kolkata – 700073, India

Dr Swapna Banerjee, Professor, Department of Library & Information Science, university of Calcutta, is one of the most eminent scholars in the subject field with more than fifty publication at national and international level. She has about ten published books in her name.