The personal archives are documents produced by individuals in the course of their daily activities. The research consists of an exploratory research, of a qualitative nature, on the personal archives guarded by the Central Archive, Central Library and Museum of the Federal University of Pará (UFPA). The problem was to verify which methods are used for the technical treatment of these collections and which archival principles are applied for their organization. Thus, the general objective of the work was to identify the personal files in custody of the Central Archive, Central Library and UFPA Museum and to understand how UFPA deals with personal archives. The specific objectives consist of understanding private and personal archives within the scope of Archival Science and identifying and understanding the activities of identification, acquisition, treatment and access to personal archives held by the Central Archive, Central Library and Museum of UFPA. The justification comes from the knowledge of the existence of a vast set of personal collections in UFPA. The theoretical framework presents an approach to personal archives within the scope of Archival Science and its perspective of memory, as well as the way in which these collections are recognized as of public and social interest and their incorporation into archival institutions. In order to identify the personal archives in the University, visits were made to the selected units and semi-structured questionnaires were applied. As a result, the existence of a vast set of personal archives at UFPA was confirmed, in addition to observing an absence of institutional policies for the acquisition and treatment of personal archives, based on the observation that each custody unit establishes its own methods for identification, treatment and access to personal archives.
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