Organização de arquivos: experiências e práticas em arquivos na Paraíba (1980-2000)

Abstract

The initial purpose of this research was to analyze the protagonism of a group of historians linked to the Núcleo de Documentação e Informação Histórica Regional (NDIHR) of the Federal University of Paraíba, created in 1976. However, in the course of our research we observed that this group of professionals was part of an large structure, with its multiple ramifications, connections and flourishings that composed as Deleuze and Guattari (2020) reference itself, meanwhile the sociologist Norbert Elias (1994) helped us to structuring this work over the concepts of configurations, interactions, interdependencies and the procedural vision of social changes. The year 1975 was our starting point to understand the formation, growth and strengthening of the group of professionals that was associated with the NDIHR. In this process, we observed the intersections and collaborations with other groups of archivists and librarians linked to the Departamento de Biblioteconomia e Documentação at UFPB and numerous professionals with practices recognized in the current Paraíba society. It’s chose to call as ‘plateau’ the set of archival practices and techniques stood out and the daily life experienced in the archives that received organization projects promoted by the NDIHR and which were described in this work, as well as the intersections of people and institutions in this rhizomatic dynamic as defined by the French philosophes. In this path designed by written documentation and oral testimonies, Archival Science was institutionalized in two public universities in Paraíba, UEPB and UFPB. In the meantime we followed the reports on the flows of knowledge that arrived in Paraíba, the archivists invited to collaborate with local professionals, the importance of offering specialization courses in Archive Organization and training provided at several cities in Paraíba. And we did not missed to analyze the conflicts between librarians and historians, from the perspective that both grew together between the 1980s and 1990s, thus avoiding the defense of fixed and very well “monitored” borders between disciplines, after all, we understand that the rhizome is formed by many dimensions that structure it.