Chapter 2
Chapter 2
Chapter 2
of
archives
2.1 EARLY BOOK AND
PAPER
BOOK
A.D 610
4,000 BC • Spread by Bhuddist monks.
• The words paper ‘comes from the • First country to use the
word papyrus by the Greeks technique of block printing.
• Ancient Egypt
• Uses animal skin A.D 751
• Ziyad ibn Salih lead back the
A.D 105 prisoners(China army) which were
• Paper invented by Tsai Lun skilled men in crafts.
• Show his “invention” of paper to the • From Samarakard their products
Han emperor of China and their craft spread gradually
• Made from a mash of sodden hemp westward.
waste
A.D 1009 A.D 1388-1470
• After 400 years, the paper • Begin producing paper for
travel from Arab to Europe , holy text
which is in Xativa , Spain • Frace become competitive
• Paper start to be used wildly paper producer
across Christian Europe
A.D 1411
A.D 1250 • First paper mill in Germany
• First paper made in Europe • In 1453, Johann
was produced in Sicily Guternberg invented the
• Using linen and cotton movable type printing press
A.D 1798
A.D 1588 • French soldier and
• England started to mechanical engineer Louis-
produce paper Nicolas Robert invented
the first papermaking
machine
A.D 1680-1690
• Work as a clerk and later
• First paper mill outside
switch the position as
the Europe at Culhuacan
“inspector of personnel” at
• First paper mill founded
Pierre-Francois Didot’s
by William Rittenhouse in hand paper-making factory
USA in Corbeil-Essonnes.
A.D 1883
• Charles Stillwell invented machine to make
brown paper bag
• The brown paper bags is used in supermarkets
A.D 1889-1990
• Economical mass produced paper become a
reality
• Doubled production about 2.5 million tons per
year
• The first documented material, clay, was used heavily the river plains of of
Mesopotamia, where many believe writing was born.
• These clay fragments were also used by many in Egypt and across Europe.
• Around 3000 BC, the Egyptians would revolutionize the literary world by producing
a smooth, flexible writing material that could accept and retain ink without a blur or
smudge.
HISTORY OF BOOK(papyrus roll)
• The first documented material, clay, was used heavily in the river
plains of Mesopotamia, where many believe writing was born.
• The advent of cloth tapes replaced the cords that were used in the
sewing operation.
• This transformed the entire backbone or the side panel of the books.
Book Backbone with False Bands
• False bands were also attached to retain the look of the old binding,
but the same effect could not be achieved.
CODEX
Example of Codex:
As the time flies many And of course, the Modern material on which
other archival evolution of this is documents are being
materials were making the materials created such as audio, visual
created that are not at the archive more material, multimedia, films,
just paper-based. versatile and diverse magnetic tapes, optical disk
2.3 TYPES OF MODERN ARCHIVAL
MATERIALS
a) MAGNETIC TAPE
• Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic recording,
made of a thin, magnetizable coating on a long, narrow
strip of plastic film.
• Devices that record and play back audio and video using
magnetic tape are tape recorders and video tape
recorders, respectively. A device that stores computer
data on magnetic tape is known as a tape drive.
• It is used for audio recording, video recording and data
storage.
Audio
Compact cassette
Video tape
recorder
American
Computer data on magnetic
tape