ADVANCED EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES Techniques and tools used in archive work applicable to the teaching process MARIANA BORCOMAN Transylvania University of Brasov ROMANIA
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[email protected] Abstract: The study of archives derives from the larger field of history. Archives comprise documents with an official character, and accompanied by personal documents and papers: letters, pictures, memoirs. Data regarding Transylvania and some episodes of its history can only be gathered by accessing these invaluable resources in order to complete the understanding of this historical province. The examination of documents within the educational process helps students familiarize with a different world, whose coordinates can only be grasped by using documents. Key words: archives, documents, librars, miniatures. I. Introductory terms II. Archives history in History is a complex science based on the Romania information gathered from various sources. In Romanian areas, the first archive Thus, the oldest sources are those dating from organization took place in the Roman province the classical ancient times. Once writing was of Dacia (the 24 wax tables of Rosia Montana), invented, the written sources contribute to and represented financial lists of the Roman describing a particular area at a certain administration. “That was also the time when moment in time. Also, the written data come an inscription mentioned the term libras, as from documents and papers issued by various well as the term scibus tabulari, which means authorities or individuals (royal or imperial archive worker. Libras refers to the person chancellor, monasteries, or abbeys). These who copied manuscripts, but also the person documents had an official character, and were who sells them” [1].