EPHEMERA – NOTÍCIAS DA SEMANA DE 13 A 19 DE AGOSTO DE 2018 – EPHEMERA – Biblioteca e arquivo de José Pacheco Pereira

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NÃO É DESLEIXO, É PURA FALTA DE TEMPO…

… que faz com que haja atraso nas respostas, nalguns casos de meses, para tudo: ofertas, doações, convites, pedidos de visitas, etc, etc. Apesar de toda a actividade que desenvolvemos, e apesar dos esforços de muitos dos nossos voluntários mais dedicados, não existe nada de parecido com um “secretariado”. Este é um trabalho de amadores, no sentido preciso do termo, e o tempo é a única coisa que a dedicação não resolve. Mas não deixem de escrever, de doar, de contactar, de visitar-nos. Acabamos por responder a todos.

Desculpem por isso, os atrasos – não é desleixo é falta de tempo.

ATRASOS NAS NOTÍCIAS DA ENTRADA DE DOAÇÕES ENTREGUES NA LER DEVAGAR

APELO: AJUDEM-NOS A FAZER UMA F.[requently] A.[sked] Q. [uestions] PARA OS NOSSOS VOLUNTÁRIOS

APELO: MANIFESTAÇÃO CONTRA OS FUROS EM ALMADA…

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ARQUIVO

PASTAS ENTRADAS NO ARQUIVO

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ENTRADAS E AGRADECIMENTOS

Agradeço a Noémia Luísa Caetano Gonçalves a oferta de um conjunto de livros de seu pai Abel Luís Caetano.

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Agradeço a José Luís Machado Feronha a oferta de publicações, panfletos, cartazes, etc. suas e de seu pai. José Luís Machado Feronha foi membro da FAP, preso político e militante do PCP(ML). Do espólio de seu pai vieram um número significativo de revistas que permitem completar colecções, entre as quais:

Arquivo Nacional, direcção de Rocha Martins, 1932 (vários números)

Cultura e Arte”- suplemento do “Comércio do Porto”, 1958 (vários números)

Ler – Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ciências, 1952 e 1953 (vários números)

Esfera – Revista de Letras, Artes e Ciências, publicação brasileira, 1938 (vários números)

Larousse Mensuel – Revue Encycopledique, 1956 (1 exemplar)

Pensamento – Revista Mensal de Divulgação Social e Científica, Arte e Literatura, editada no Porto, 1937, 1939, 1940 (vários números)

Cartas de Problemática, de António Sérgio. Dez cartas publicadas em 1952 e 1953

Síntese – Revista Mensal de Cultura Científica, Literária, Artística, publicada em Coimbra, 1940 e 1941, sob a direcção de Ramiro da Fonseca e a edição de José Saramago (5 números, um dos quais contém uma curiosa e significativa adenda, dando conta de que a partir dessa edição, inclusive, a publicação era obrigada a ir à censura).

Portucale – Revista Ilustrada de Cultura Literária, Científica e Artística, 1935 (1 volume)

Revista de Portugal, editada em Coimbra sob a direcção de Vitorino Nemésio, 1937 (número 1)

Mundo Literário – Semanário de Crítica e Informação Literária, Científica e Artística”dirigido por Jaime Cortesão, 1946 e 1947 (vários números)

Litoral – Revista Mensal de Cultura, 1944 e 1945 (2 números)

Vários úmeros das revistas “Vértice” e “Seara Nova” dos anos 40, 50 e posteriores,

Materiais da IG Metall e uma colecção muito extensa dos jornais de fábrica e locais do PCP(ML) “Vilar”.

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Sérgio Godinho com a Banda da Vila da Marmeleira.

ACE – BIBLIOTECA POPULAR DA VILA DA MARMELEIRA – LIVRARIA LER DEVAGAR – SÉRGIO GODINHO FALA DE LIVROS E CANÇÕES E VISITA O ARQUIVO (11 DE AGOSTO DE 2018) – FOTOGRAFIAS

PARTITURAS – ÍNDICE

ENTRADAS DA SEMANA: CDs / CDROM /DVDs

COLECÇÃO DE PUBLICIDADE – ÍNDICE

ENTRADAS DA SEMANA: LIVROS

ENTRADAS DA SEMANA: DISCOS VINIL

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EPHEMERA FORA DO EPHEMERA: “ROSTO DA SEMANA”

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EPHEMERA/ TVI24

TVI24 / EPHEMERA – A GRAVAÇÃO DE UM EPISÓDIO NO BARREIRO (NO ARMAZÉM E JUNTO DO MONUMENTO A ZAMENHOF)

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Livros que estavam em mau estado e que foram restaurados e encadernados

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EM ACTUALIZAÇÃO

O ESFORÇO DAS AUTÁRQUICAS

Balanço de actividades (em breve).

MAPA ACTUALIZADO

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NOVIDADES NO SITE DO EPHEMERA:

CARTAZES CONTRA O ESTADO NOVO (1926-1974)

VINHETAS E AUTOCOLANTES CONTRA A DITADURA (1926-1974)

(Em construção.)

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COISAS QUE INTERESSAM AO EPHEMERA

Aqui.

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Paul Fahri, Said something you’d like to forget? CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski won’t let it go., Washington Post,, 13 de Agosto de 2018

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Public archives: more relevant today than ever

Excerpto (mas vale a pena ler tudo):

There has been a lot of noise recently about information distortion and its effects on democracy. So what better time to raise the importance of historical literacy and public archives? In gathering and promoting primary source material, archives play an essential role in modelling literacy skills and critical thinking. In analyzing this material and producing modest, reasonable conclusions, researchers aim to understand complex issues and to engage the public in the discussion. These skills are crucial tools in a democracy.

For too long archives have been hidden and archivists overlooked. All sorts of unflattering stories have circulated about archives, as if to keep the general public out. Witness the way popular culture has painted the picture: dust, disorder and darkness.

Historical thinking

Archives are considerably more nuanced than most people realize. The researchers who use public archives, as well as the staff, have a wide range of backgrounds and interests. Diversity is valued for the fresh ideas it fosters. Pluralism brings new perspectives and new questions to the sources. Working with archives is an exercise in historical thinking where questions about sources, context and cause are central. (Consider the work of the Historical Thinking Project, an educational initiative organized around the questions historians pose of primary sources, aimed at promoting media and information literacy.) Solid archival research requires sources to be validated, corroborated and referenced, so that peers can follow the line of reasoning and further the arguments.

As critical thinkers engaged in creating interrelated information pathways, archivists are allergic to binary thinking. They worry about gaps in collections and how to mitigate bias, both historical and contemporary. Behind the scenes, archivists query one another on acquisitions, evaluations and descriptions of archival collections to ensure that the documentary heritage preserved today will enable future generations to understand their own past.

What motivates archivists? Primarily, it’s the conviction that people have the right to understand the society they live in. In a democracy, rights and responsibilities are in balance. Archives uphold the democratic principles of accountability and transparency. Archives remind us that our decisions have tangible impacts. We all make better decisions when we are well informed. Library and Archives Canada (LAC), for instance, is legally mandated to be the “continuing memory of the Government of Canada and its institutions,” meaning that future researchers will have access to governmental archives created today. This ensures the long-term accountability of government, including through litigation. LAC is also legally mandated to contribute to the “cultural, social and economic advancement of Canada as a free and democratic society” through the acquisition and diffusion of knowledge.

For archivists, change is constant and embraced, but it is the longue durée that is measured here. For instance, access to archival records may be restricted in the short term to protect privacy rights, but schedules are in place to ensure the information will eventually become available to researchers. Today’s historians and educators have the benefit of previously unavailable information from the archives, which means that children today are learning new, more nuanced histories.

Truth matters

Why does it matter that deeper understandings are brought to the discipline of history and the archival practice? Because we learn from the past. As archival records become available, we are better able to analyze the ways our lives have changed. Sometimes this means celebrating achievements, and sometimes it means acknowledging errors. New evidence can — we hope — help us to make good future decisions and to avoid perpetuating injustice. Consider, for instance, the way archival records have informed current discussions of Indigenous history and reconciliation initiatives.

Public archives promote the view that truth matters, even when it is not yet fully established. This is not to suggest that all information resources are accurate. Public debate based on careful factual analysis of all the available information helps us approach a provisionally truthful account. With time, the account is refined further. Archival research is about perpetually seeking clearer understandings of the past.

To face new challenges, archives are changing: experimenting with new techniques, refreshing their outreach strategies and building partnerships with other memory institutions. The buildings in which archives are housed matter less than the work that takes place within. But if Andrew Carnegie, who funded thousands of public libraries internationally, were alive today, would he not rally around the idea of architecture so eye-catching in a centrally located and welcoming building that citizens enter as tourists and stay as seekers of knowledge — and would this not perhaps inspire other wealthy patrons to follow his example?

Public archives and libraries are community and design hubs that speak of transparency and openness, where learning is shared, across time. As Sir Arthur Doughty, Dominion Archivist and Keeper of the Public Records, wrote in The Canadian Archives and Its Activities (1924):

Of all national assets, archives are the most precious, they are the gifts of one generation to another, and the extent of our care of them marks the extent of our civilisation…As a rule, the papers of a given generation are seldom required after their reception and primary use; but when all personal touch with that period has ceased, then these records assume a startling importance, for they replace hands that have vanished and lips that are sealed.