A study on archival promotion strategy in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Deng, Lain Hwa, 鄧蓮華
• Other Authors: Hsueh, Li Kuei
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/20936140087527438829

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 圖書資訊與檔案學研究所 === 97 === Archives are the accumulation of human wisdom and the treasury of history and knowledge. They are used for administrative, legal, historical and academic purposes. In order to allow the public to know the full capacity and value of archives, there should be archival promotions so that their importance is seen and understood by all. This research compiles archival promotion theories, such as meaning, purpose and channel, through literature analysis to delve into the status quo of current archival promotion in five countries including the US, England, and Canada. This research also conducts interview surveys of the National Archives Administration, Academia Historica, Taiwan Historica of Academia Historica and Academia Sinica, Hu Shih Memorial Hall of the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, State History Office of The Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) and The Shanghai Commercial & Savings Bank, Ltd., to gain an understanding of archival promotion practiced by each unit. Through questionnaire surveys, this research adopts a sampling survey of users from four units receiving the interviews who once participated in archival promotion activities, analyzing and exploring their participation experience, to obtain their feedback and suggestions. Finally, this research uses a comparison method to analyze and compare archival promotion practices in Taiwan with those of the preceding five countries, to further induce the most characteristic and frequently used promotional items as well as to find adequate strategies suitable for Taiwan’s archival promotion. The research results include six conclusions: (1) Archival promotion is one of the administrative goals implemented by each unit in charge of the national archives administration; (2) Special festivals and holidays are the best occasions for archival promotion; (3) Archival promotion can achieve expected benefits; (4) Internet promotion has become a trend; (5) Strategic alliance and recruitment of volunteers is the best solution channels to a predicament; and (6) Archival promotion should be diverse and practiced in daily life. These findings thus propose the following seven suggestions: (1) Expand the integration of social resources and volunteer recruitment; (2) Promote national archives weekly/monthly activities; (3) Strengthen the cultivation of school children’s archival concept; (4) Strengthen the promotion of archival internet and website contents; (5) Strengthen the collections and resources that meet both quality and quantity demands; (6) Develop archival value-added actively and creatively; and (7) Actively assist the related units in establishing a historical sources exhibition room.