Collection of Youth Posters

Collection of Youth Posters

Youth Documentation CentreDocumentation and Archive Service

Youth Secretariat

Pilar París PujolService Head

Mid-Term Conference Government Libraries Section  

IFLABarcelona, 22-23 de abril de 2010

Presentation outline

Context Organisation chart Mission and functions of the Youth Documentation Centre (CDJ) Cooperation agreement with the National Archive of Catalonia

(ANC) and the National Youth Council of Catalonia (CNJC)

Preservation of youth documentation Collection of Youth Posters

Digitalisation Cataloguing

Dissemination Web DVD

Youth Documentation CentreOrganisation chart

Department of Social Action and Citizenship

Youth Secretariat Documentation and Archive Service

Youth Documentation Centre Administrative Archive

Youth Documentation CentreMission

To obtain, select, classify and conserve documents relating to youth issues to ensure their preservation and dissemination and make them available to social, political and academic agents and to youth policy professionals

Youth Documentation Centre Functions

Under Decree 239/2005, 8 November, on the restructuring of the Youth Secretariat (SJ), the Documentation and Archive Service has the following functions:

a) Managing the Youth Secretariat’s Youth Documentation Centre.

b) Obtaining, classifying and conserving documentary material relating to youth issues.

c) Driving the conservation and classification of documentary material of historical, cultural or social interest from youth organisations.

d) Partnering research institutions where collections of documents about youth issues are held, and in particular the National Archive of Catalonia.

e) Managing the Youth Secretariat’s Administrative Archive. f) Any others with which it is tasked by the head of the Sub-

directorate General for Youth.

Cooperation agreement between institutions

In 2002, an agreement was signed by: Youth Secretariat National Archive of Catalonia (ANC) National Youth Council of Catalonia (CNJC)

Purpose To promote the conservation and

preservation of historical collections through a variety of actions.

Preservation of documents relating to youth issues:

Some actions carried out

Dealing with collections about: Catalan scouting movements – religious and lay National Youth Council of Catalonia (CNJC) Youth Activities Information and Promotion Service

(SIPAJ) National Federation of Students of Catalonia (FNEC) Collection of Youth Posters

Publications

Collection of Youth Posters Collection

Created in the 1980s and 1990s About youth issues

The poster Means of communication to publicise actions and activities

geared towards young people Specifications

Still image accompanied by messages Multiple copies are made of it Low cost Seeing it is free, involuntary and individual Put up in places frequented by young people

Project Digitalisation Cataloguing Dissemination

Collection of Youth Posters Description

Period: 1980 – 1994 Collection: 2,030 posters Digitalisation: 1,273 posters

Production: Generalitat of Catalonia (303) Youth organisations (916) International (54)

Cataloguing

Collection of Youth Posters Digitalisation

Part of the collection (1,273/2,030) Actual size Format

JPEG – consultation TIFF – preservation and reproduction

Collection of Youth PostersCataloguing

Entering descriptive items in the Image Collection

database at the National Archive of Catalonia Basic descriptive items:

Cataloguing unit Author Title Description of the visual content of the poster Subject descriptors, place names Generating organisation Legal deposit Printing Place of publication Year of publication

Collection of Youth Posters Dissemination: web

http://www20.gencat.cat/portal/site/Joventut/menuitem.bff3da723f36edc77839a410b0c0e1a0/?vgnextoid=4344df425a8b2110VgnVCM1000008d0c1e0aRCRD&vgnextchannel=4344df425a8b2110VgnVCM1000008d0c1e0aRCRD&vgnextfmt=default

http://cultura.gencat.cat/ArxiusEnLinia/numRegistresSimple.do

Collection of Youth Posters Dissemination: DVD

Collection of Youth Posters DVD: presentation

Collection of Youth Posters Dissemination: DVD

Collection of Youth Posters DVD: overview

Collection of Youth Posters Dissemination: DVD

Collection of Youth Posters DVD: search

Collection of Youth Posters DVD: user’s manual

Collection of Youth Posters Dissemination: DVD

Collection of Youth Posters DVD: videos

Summer activities “Viu l’estiu” (Live the summer), 1985. TV de Catalunya.

Launch of the Carnet Jove (Youth Card), 1986. TV de Catalunya.

Collection of Youth Posters DVD: content sorting

Themed categories based on the Youth Documentation

Centre’s classification scheme Youth policies Democratic participation Social cohesion Education Culture Work Health Values Environment Leisure Information and communication

Chronological

Collection of Youth Posters DVD: content

Impact on cultural and educational issues

Interdepartmental actions Political priorities Constant aspects of the lives of

young people

Collection of Youth PostersHuman resources

Interns selected by means of a call for applicants organised by the Youth Secretariat Inclusion of students Workplace training Tutoring

Collection of Youth Posters

Thanks Head of the Image Collection Department at the

National Archive of Catalonia Project interns Team at the Youth Secretariat’s Documentation and

Archive Service Managers and librarians at the Youth

Documentation Centre since 1984

Where we are

Youth Documentation CentreCalàbria 14708015 BarcelonaPhone +00 34 934 838 417Email: cdj.dasc@gencat.catwww.gencat.cat/joventut/centredocumentacio