As Catholic archival Objects are records to express faith as arts, and reflect spirit of the religion and ecclesiastical cultures with religious symbols and creativeness, they are very important properties in Catholic Church.
archival Objects with th...
As Catholic archival Objects are records to express faith as arts, and reflect spirit of the religion and ecclesiastical cultures with religious symbols and creativeness, they are very important properties in Catholic Church.
archival Objects with these values as well as Catholic church records have been well recognized for necessity of professional management on them abroad, and the circulations about them have been issued, too. In case of Korean Catholic Church, archival Objects were recognized as relics and cultural heritages, and in order to manage them with architectures and art works systematically, the Guideline for Conservation and Management of Cultural Heritages in Korean Catholic church was made in 2009. However, even though this guideline was prepared, each dioceses and parishes have not followed the guideline and the conservation and management according to it is not done.
Therefore, this study considered archival Objects as a kind of records and investigated and analyzed the current status of management system in Catholic Archdiocese of Daegu, in order to solve problems in management of Catholic archival Objects. As a result of the investigation and analysis, the following problems were deduced.
Diocese Archives of Catholic Archdiocese of Daegu owns various archival Objects but integrates simply their types as 'archival Objects' and manages them. The form of register to manage them is prepared, and yet there is no stage for registration and management, causing no registration work. Also, in the department, description for archival Objects are not made, and there are no professional forms of description for archival Objects, either. In addition, the spaces for stack to store them lack, and some archival Objects are stored in protection cap without archives box after sterilizing them. Vestments are hung in hangers in one room without disinfection process.
To solve these problems, this study makes four suggestions for improvement as follows:
First, it is necessary to categorize archival Objects in the diocese archives by detailed type analyzing the union catalog of Diocese Archives of Catholic Archdiocese of Daegu based on the guidelines from National Archives of Korea and Catholic Bishop’s conference of Korea, and to manage archival Objects by type making categorization system by type based on it.
Second, it is necessary to manage archival Objects in the diocese archives composing the register for the archival Objects, and this register should be modified and recomposed to reflect characteristics of the archival Objects of the diocese archives of Catholic Archdiocese of Daegu after comparing the existing register of the archival Objects, and forms of register of National Archives of Korea and of archival Objects from work manual by the Presidential Archives.
Third, the form of description for archival Objects of diocese archives of Catholic Archdiocese of Daegu was suggested by comparing and analyzing suggestions for descriptive factors by National Archives of Korea, and by Wang, Young-hoon, respectively, and this form was developed by considering original characteristics of archival Objects unexpressed in register. In addition, factors to show the contents and production backgrounds of archival Objects were added, and descriptive factors should include both those of archival perspectives and museum perspectives.
Fourth, it is necessary to prepare stack space for archival Objects, and to store them in archives box by manufacturing them. Also, for vestments, as they are the largest portion of the archival Objects in the diocese archives, it is required to secure spaces to store them as they are increased. In addition, as they are not sterilized, it is necessary to consider installation of thermo-hygrostat and effects of ventilation through securing space between vestments. Finally, interval for physical examination of fabrics should be shortened from the previous 10 years and they should be examined.