GANJINE-YE ASNAD
Year:2016 | Volume:26 | Issue:3 (103) |Papers Count:7

Purpose: The Pahlavi regime was the inheritor of a bankrupt and disorganized economic system. In order to prevent the devaluation of the national currency (Qeran), the Iranian government imposed a balance of imports and exports to reform and modernize the national economy. However, the outbreak of the Great Depression in 1929 caused the government and the parliament to implement alternative economic policies for a period of time. This study has investigated these policies.Method/Research Design: this study has been carried out through the analysis of the data derived from the commercial and financial statistics.Findings: the analysis of the tables and charts relating to both pre and post Trade Monopoly Law indicates from import and export data that the policy was relatively successful in creating a positive trade balance. The prices of imported major items show that the government's policy to maintain stability and prevent inflation was successful.

Purpose: The fall of Reza Shah (1925-1941) following the occupation of Iran by the Allied Forces during WWII, had economic, political and social consequences, one being interventions by British diplomacy in Iranians’ internal affairs. The influence of the British government in Iran, which changed ovner time relative to the strength or weaknesses of the Iranian government. was intensified by the occupation. This paper explores dimensions of that influence during 1941-1945 based on archival documents in the National Archives of Iran.Method/Research Design: Library and archives resources were used to prepare this paper.Findings: By signing a trilateral agreement in Tehran, UK, US, and the Soviet Union implicitly allowed the UK to intervene in Iranians’ internal affairs. This caused disruption in commerce, confusion in public administration, censorship in the media as well as in postal and telecommunication services.

Purpose: This paper examines an important late Qajarid policy document regarding the Persian Gulf.Method/Research Design: Archival records and library resources were consulted to prepare this paperFindings: The content of the policy document examined clearly shows that both Moshir-al-Dowleh (the Minister of Foreign Affairs) and Amin-al-Soltan (The Prime Minister) had a good understanding of the importance of the Persian Gulf for national interests. In the document, the governor of the region is advised to pay close attention to the activities of foreign embassies, to prevent foreign nationals from owning properties, to prevent British officials and other British nationals from what they considered was misuse of the telegraph facilities, and to pay attention to the maintenance of the Persepolis ship and the customs house in Bushehr.

Purpose: To explore the impact of the oil industry on the economic and social development of Kharg Island.Method / Research Design: This study is based on library resources and archival documents.Findings: With the selection of Kharg as the main terminal for export of the Iranian crude oil, numerous facilities were installed on the island. Kharg then became Iran's biggest oil export hub and one of the world's largest. As the result, topographic and demographic changes took place in the Island: living standards improved and the infrastructure of the Island hugely developed. As the result a new middle class emerged as a hundreds of staff and their families created a new community on the Island.

Purpose: Examining the quality and the quantity of the visual architectural and urban design documents.Method/Research Design: Analysis is based on archival documents, archaeological reports, and library resources.Findings: Findings show differences in the number of visual documents from different periods. Most of the visual documents found belong to the ancient times, mostly from Elamid and Jiroft civilizations. Some also represent Urartu and Medes architectures. In the post-Islamic era, the quality of visual documentation has improved. Documentation of the Ilkhanid period (13th century) is more of urban design. Since the middle Qajar period onwards, the methods of documentation have developed technically. However, what we can safely call systematic documentation only started in the 20th century.Conclusion: Iranian visual documentation is diverse. Tendency towards realism is especially evident since the 20th century. Some documents are produced to reflect a physical concept and others are generated for other purposes.

Purpose: This paper reports metadata elements arrangements and descriptions of geographic maps in the Iranian geographic centers, archives, libraries.Methodology: Worksheets of 9 organizations were examined and 13 specialists were interviewed. Also, 6 information sources with links to geographic maps were consulted.Findings: Overall, 209 metadata elements were identified for the organization of maps, of which 59 were found in the worksheets, 198 in standards, and 25 in the information resource. Twenty elements were shared by them. The worksheet of Astan Quds Razavi’s Libraries, Museums and Document Center was the most complete one among the 9 organizations, as in addition to the normal descriptive metadata elements, it contained metadata elements for describing mathematical data.

Purpose: Air as a source of microorganisms has an important role in the biological contamination and serious bio-deterioration of archival materials, so regular microbial monitoring of the air of repositories along with protective conservation policies for identifying and correcting critical conditions, is inevitable. The aim of this study was to evaluate the biological air contamination levels in the archival repositories of the National Library and Archives of Iran, by active and passive sampling methods, and to assess the relationship between the results of the two methods.Method/Research Design: Air sampling of repositories was carried out in two ways: Active (using Air sampler model, SAS), and Passive (Settle plates) methods, according ISO 14698-1: 2003, standard. After determining of TVC (Total Viable Count) and identifying different groups of microorganisms by microbiological methods, the correlation between the results of the two methods and frequency of different groups were evaluated.Findings: Among the isolates of fungal genera the highest frequency is reached by Penicillium, Cladasporium and Aspergillus in both passive and active sampling methods. Prevalence of contaminant bacteria of the air of repositories, in both sampling methods, indicates dominance of sporulated gram-positive rod bacteria such as Bacillus and Streptomyces. Statistical analysis using SPSS confirmed the correlation between the two methods of air quality assessment. Frequency of different groups of micro organisms introduces active air sampling as a better method for isolation of fungi genera.Conclusion: The results of both methods are reliable for periodical monitoring of air microbial contamination.