Marlena Jabłońska - Environment of archives – a research project


The article discusses a research project that intends to study the environment of archives in Poland and existing relations between archives and the environment. The Author formulates a research hypothesis that all institutions have their inside and outside environment; she presents the present knowledge of the subject, she introduces the concept and research schedule, its methodology and supposed effects. This research will allow to acquire knowledge of archives as institutions, of its organization, rules of functioning, place in society, and most of all – knowledge of groups of inquirers, which archives encounter during their activities, with detailed identification of quality of relations between them.