@article{d1d7c93c-47f3-4e8c-93ec-6d337b4cffd3,
author = {Dariusz Magier},
title = {The curse of Bogdan Kroll. Researchers and scientific activities in Polish state archives in the light of archival literature from the 20th and 21st century},
journal = {Archeion},
volume = {2019},
number = {120},
year = {2020},
issn = {0066-6041},
pages = {89-107},keywords = {state archives in Poland; archivists; research; Bogdan Kroll; curse; science; office},
abstract = {From the very beginning, archival institutions in Poland were perceived as scientific institutions, while archivists were considered researchers, who by necessity also performed official functions. The archivist’s scholarly tasks included organizing files, preparing inventories, repertories, indexes, making files available and preparing archival materials for printing. The old term ‘core activity archive worker’ meant an archival researcher . Based on archival literature, the article describes the process of departing from scientific activity in the state archives in Poland in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and the accompanying phenomenon of a decrease in the number of researchers and their replacement by personnel, which for completely different reasons was requested at the end of the 1950s by the then employee and subsequent director of the Archive of New Records in Warsaw, Bogdan Kroll, namely auxiliary archival staff. This fact, provocatively described by the author as a curse that is now being realised, becomes for him an opportunity to trace the transmutation of the archivists of the Polish state archives from researchers to officials.},
doi = {10.4467/26581264ARC.19.003.11812},
url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/archeion/article/klatwa-bogdana-krolla-pracownicy-naukowi-i-dzialalnosc-naukowa-w-polskich-archiwach-panstwowych-w-swietle-literatury-archiwalnej-z-xx-i-xxi-w}
}