Documentos de cientista: a organização arquivística do fundo pessoal de Lauro Travassos Filho

Abstract

The archival organization consists of procedures of identification, description and documentary classification. In the classification documents are grouped in Fonds, which is the main unit of division of documents. The fonds are defined as the set of records of an organization, family, or individual that have been created and accumulated as the result of an organic process reflecting the functions of the creator. The identification and description consisted of the archival technical processing of approximately one thousand documents. The documents have been identified and described based on the physical and substantial document settings. The elaborated Classification Plan was based on respect for the institutions in which Travassos worked and on the functionality of the documents. For archival organization in the Personal Fund of Lauro Travassos Filho, we preliminarily recognize Travassos' professional trajectory. Lauro Travassos Filho 1918-1989 was a scientist, entomologist who worked at the Department of Zoology of the São Paulo Agriculture Secretariat and at the Butantan Institute, acting as researcher and head of department. The Plan of Classification of the Personal Fond of Lauro Travassos, had like first division the documents relative the personal and professional activities, categorizing Sections. Within Professional Activities, the documents were grouped based on the institutions in which Travassos worked: Department of Zoology, Butantan Institute and Scientific Societies in which he was a member, partner or publisher. In the identification of the documents we find several typologies, with emphasis on letters, scientific work files and evidence of administrative activities. The archival procedures in the Personal Fund of Lauro Travassos Filho assist in the preservation of the documents and favor the access to the information of the documents