ABSTRACT
This paper aims to discuss the archival institutions context and the role of archival professionals in the present day. It demonstrates how the information paradigm has reshaped the archivists activities, as well as uses and users of the archival record. To do so, a parallel as traced with Inside Out (2015), a movie about Riley, an 11-year-old girl who lives in conflict with herself and her parents after moving from her hometown. The stars are five emotions: Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger, responsible for the girl's personality characteristics and also for the storage and treatment of her memories. In this context, it is possible to perceive through the film the idea of the mind as an archival institution, and of the emotions as archival professionals responsible for accumulating, selecting, storing and discarding the character's memories. In the movie reality, Riley's memories are records of great importance in the constitution of the character's identity and in her interaction with her social groups. Thus, we can say that archival institutions are organic environments, in transformation and strongly marked by the work of archivists, seen as agents of memory that are fundamental to the formation of identities. This representation goes against some of the main characteristics consolidated in the area, such as the naturalness of documents and the impartiality of archival professionals. Finally, it also redefines the archival record, which is now understood from the point of view of information.
KEYWORDS:
Archivist; Records; Memory
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