대학사(大學史)의 편멱(編冪)과 대학(大學)아카이브즈(Archives)의 운용(運用) = A study on the compilation of the history of University and operation of University Archives

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This essay aims to search for the establishment and management of university archives focused on those archives in foreign countries and Korea. In early stages, university archives in the West began to be organized owing to evidence ability of their records. Then, the need to collect materials in publishing their history contributed to modernized university archives. This case is true to Japan. And university archives have been shaping based upon legislation of the management of records and archives in the public agencies act’ in Korea.
University records are important to keep their pride and to confirm their identity and they are basic materials for the study of cultural, educational and social history, and have still the value of evidence. Their original function is to secure legal rights of their own members and to maximise administrative efficiency. If necessary conditions of regulations, independent organizations, professional manpower, necessary facilities, and legal and executive authorities could be satisfied, academic archives might do their proper roles. That is to say, university archives must make their main functions to collect and search academic records and to publish abstracts of research products, and exhibit their holdings for citizens around the academic institution. In addition, they must give basic matters for the writing of the history of university.