Arquivo como fonte de pesquisa na cidade de Manaus: o acesso a documentação de valor secundário

Abstract

The city of Manaus is constituted as the reference levels in the northern socioeconomic, political and cultural. Throughout the history of the Amazon, Manaus has always been in a position of prominence and featured various social agents responsible for its presence and magnitude of reference for the region. Thus the documentation that tells the story Amazon was produced largely in the city of Manaus. The study aimed to identify the institutions that guard the historical documentation, ie, with secondary value and understand how these institutions provide access documentation for different types of users. For this was a questionnaire which covered issues that concern access documents with secondary value as: Access policy, confidentiality of information, space for consultation, referral services, archival functions typical of permanent file. The study also sought to raise healthy which users of these files and more thematic worked in each collection. In line with these objectives the research sought to take the occult knowledge of which institutions provide access to documentary manauara that society could better enjoy these institutions for research, institutional memory and claiming rights.