A relação da difusão arquivística com a visão de quem é o arquivista na sociedade no contexto de Santa Maria-RS

Abstract

This research has as its theme ‘the archivistic diffusion and the archivist’ and aimed to investigate the relationship between the archivistic diffusion carried out by the Municipal Historical Archive of Santa Maria (Arquivo Histórico Municipal de Santa Maria, AHMSM) and by the Archival Science course of the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) with the process of identification and comprehension of who is the archivist by the community of Santa Maria RS. It consists of a case study carried out between 2019 and 2020, of applied nature, quantitative and qualitative approaches, exploratory and descriptive, on which it was used a bibliographical research on the theme and elaboration and application of a questionnaire to 116 subjects, whose obtained data were verified and analyzed. Among the results, it was verified that 63.8% of the subjects know about the Archival Science course of UFSM, 50% know about the archivist profession and 12.9% know about AHMSM; as for knowledge about the archivist profession, most of the subjects knew of it through family and friends, and very few due to the diffusion actions of the AHMSM and/or the Archival Science course of the UFSM. In addition, there was a predominance of the comprehension of the archivist as acting in public institutions, who has a college degree in Archival Science, as a guardian of the documents, as a managing professional, whose work objects are the document and the information, being responsible for mediating the access to those. Also, that the AHMSM and the Archival Science course of the UFSM are not responsible for them knowing the profession, as their diffusion actions are not focused on the professional, but in other recurring and valid aspects to the archivistic diffusion.