The Deeds and Documents Office
The Deeds and Documents Office of the Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi commenced its activity in its present form in 1997. Some of the most important duties of this office are as follows:
Gathering, preserving, securing, classifying and publishing deeds and documents including: Pictures, printings and manuscripts deeds, cassettes, maps, cliches and seals etc, granting information services about these resources to the researchers, providing and accomplishing research plans regarding the deeds and documents secured in the treasuries, supplying, preserving, classifying and granting services related to the old and new newspapers, magazines and periodicals.
Departments of the Deeds Office
1) Dead Records Department:
Gathering documents from different centers of dead records of the Astan Quds Razavi's Institution, receiving granted or purchased deeds, evaluating, preserving and securing these deeds, providing detailed certification, registering and storing received information in the computer are among the important duties undertaken by this department.
2) Archives and Indexing Department of Deeds:
This department has the following units:
A: The Treasury of Deeds
B: Indexing documents and photos which accelerate the job of adjusting and classifying the certification of deeds and photos to access them fast and accurately.
C: The Archives of Oral History undertakes to gather, classify, preserve and secure audio-visual documents. The subject of these documents are almost about the review of the contemporary history of Iran.
D: The Archives of Seals and Signatures.
E: Information Bank of Newspapers and Deeds.
F: The Archives of Official Publications.
3) The Press Archives Department:
This department was independently established in 1980. At present it enjoys a treasury, two reading rooms, an administrative section, and a preparing section.
At the present time, more than 21000 series of bound newspapers and magazines including 4300 titles of old and new magazines in 18 current languages of the world in various subjects are preserved and secured in the treasury.
The number of current newspapers amount up to 1300 titles. The "Waqaye Ettefaqiyyeh" newspaper is the oldest one preserved in this section.
The first issue of this newspaper was published in 1267 A.H, entitled "the Akhbare Dar-ul-Khelafheye Tehran " (The News of Capital City of Tehran). The oldest magazine is an Arabic one entitled" the Al Moqtataf," published in 1293 A.H/ 1876 A.D.
4)Research Department
It carries out research based on the documents available in this section.
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