Acervos fotográficos no Rio Grande do Sul: acesso as fontes de pesquisa

Abstract

This specialization monograph has the objective of analyzing the access and use of photographic collections of public archivist institutions in the state of Rio Grande do Sul as a research source. With the emergence of street photographers, the municipal public institutions have acquired several photographs that show their cities, personalities and events. After some years, these registries were gathered and/or given to institutions that were charged to preserve the local history. Given the importance of such records to the rescue of facts and events, this research investigates which are the institutions with photographic collections, in what way the information is provided, what description instruments are used, who accesses these informations and the profile of these users. For this, we selected public archivist institutions , which have photographic collections, located in cities with more than 260,000 inhabitants. Through a questionnaire were identified which measures are adopted by the institutions in the packing, in the storing, in the conservation, the available services in the attendance to users and in the diffusion of these activities. The data is analyzed in the light of the theoretical references: access and dissemination of information, the users of files and research sources, the photographic register and the documental research.