Archivologo
BACK TO THE FUTURE: NEW ADDRESS FOR ARCHIVES DEPT
EN: MUMBAI NEWSLINE
SITE: http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=202730
FECHA: 25/09/2006
AUTOR: Sai Raje
Mumbai, September 25: The dust laden shelves with their quaint old paper smell could soon be a thing of the past for the state government’s Department of Archives. To be replaced with the swanky smells of new construction and state-of-the-art technology.
The department, which for 113 years lived a cramped existence in space borrowed from the Elphinstone College at Kala Ghoda, will finally move to a home of its own. The new address being spacious quarters at the Bandra Kurla Complex.
A proposal to shift the department, which has functioned as a storehouse of the state’s historical documents since 1893, has been approved by the state government, confirmed Director of Archives Bhaskar Dhatavkar.
‘‘A sum of Rs 21 crore has been sanctioned for the project. The big plan now is to move to a five-storey construction, sufficiently equipped with up-to-date technology for maintenance and storage of the department’s rare documents. We have already bought a 1,50,000 sq feet plot at Bandra Kurla Complex and construction will begin in early next January next,’’ the director said.
The department has been storing historical records since 1630, when the East India Company began establishing itself in Mumbai.
With continuous new additions to the already existing 5,00,000 large volumes, 50,00,000 files containing old documents and 30,000 maps, even the two floors that it partially occupies in the college, aren’t sufficient.
‘‘And with the kind of rare documents that we possess, we needed a place that is better equipped with storage technology,’’ added Dhatavkar.
For starters, the entire five-storey construction will be air conditioned, with its temperature being controlled between 22 and 26 degrees Celsius and the humidity at 45 per cent.
There will be separate sections allotted for microfilming, fumigating, cleaning old records; with testing of all documents being done in a specially designed laboratory.
An elaborate, almost futuristic-looking fire fighting system is also planned with partitions that will drop down from the ceilings to the floors, to isolate record rooms from the rest of the building in case of a fire alarm. Dhatavkar says, ‘‘These are our tentative plans. We are still working out the nitty gritties with the National Archives in New Delhi.’’
And, just in order to retain a tenuous connection with the Gothic building that had been its home for over a century, the new building will be done up with a Raj facade.
EN: MUMBAI NEWSLINE
SITE: http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=202730
FECHA: 25/09/2006
AUTOR: Sai Raje
Mumbai, September 25: The dust laden shelves with their quaint old paper smell could soon be a thing of the past for the state government’s Department of Archives. To be replaced with the swanky smells of new construction and state-of-the-art technology.
The department, which for 113 years lived a cramped existence in space borrowed from the Elphinstone College at Kala Ghoda, will finally move to a home of its own. The new address being spacious quarters at the Bandra Kurla Complex.
A proposal to shift the department, which has functioned as a storehouse of the state’s historical documents since 1893, has been approved by the state government, confirmed Director of Archives Bhaskar Dhatavkar.
‘‘A sum of Rs 21 crore has been sanctioned for the project. The big plan now is to move to a five-storey construction, sufficiently equipped with up-to-date technology for maintenance and storage of the department’s rare documents. We have already bought a 1,50,000 sq feet plot at Bandra Kurla Complex and construction will begin in early next January next,’’ the director said.
The department has been storing historical records since 1630, when the East India Company began establishing itself in Mumbai.
With continuous new additions to the already existing 5,00,000 large volumes, 50,00,000 files containing old documents and 30,000 maps, even the two floors that it partially occupies in the college, aren’t sufficient.
‘‘And with the kind of rare documents that we possess, we needed a place that is better equipped with storage technology,’’ added Dhatavkar.
For starters, the entire five-storey construction will be air conditioned, with its temperature being controlled between 22 and 26 degrees Celsius and the humidity at 45 per cent.
There will be separate sections allotted for microfilming, fumigating, cleaning old records; with testing of all documents being done in a specially designed laboratory.
An elaborate, almost futuristic-looking fire fighting system is also planned with partitions that will drop down from the ceilings to the floors, to isolate record rooms from the rest of the building in case of a fire alarm. Dhatavkar says, ‘‘These are our tentative plans. We are still working out the nitty gritties with the National Archives in New Delhi.’’
And, just in order to retain a tenuous connection with the Gothic building that had been its home for over a century, the new building will be done up with a Raj facade.
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