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Who's behind the news?
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The Archivo Histórico UC is the institutional historical archive of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC Chile), one of Latin America's leading research universities. Managed through the university's Dirección de Bibliotecas, the Archive preserves and provides access to documents of high historical value that record UC Chile's institutional trajectory since its founding in 1885.
UC Chile was founded on June 21, 1888, by Archbishop Mariano Casanova of Santiago, with the first classes offered to 50 students that same year. Although the university has held institutional records since its earliest years, the formal Archivo Histórico UC project was launched in 2013 through the Dirección de Bibliotecas. This project introduced systematic administrative and technical processes for managing the documentary patrimony, applying the international standard ISO 15489 for records management. Initial work involved cleaning, conserving, and organizing the physical documents, followed by digitization guided by both internal criteria and user needs.
The Archive's holdings document UC Chile's institutional history from 1885 through the mid-twentieth century and beyond, organized by rectorship and administrative function. Key collection groups include rectoral records, administrative correspondence, faculty and departmental files, and records relating to the university's role in Chilean cultural and intellectual life. Notable personal archives associated with the university include documents related to Chilean artists such as Violeta Parra, Vicente Huidobro, Fernando Castillo Velasco, Ana González, René Combeau, and Jorge Brantmayer. The Huidobro family donated over five thousand of the poet's documents to the archive for permanent preservation.
UC Chile established a School of Journalism in the mid-twentieth century, and its television station Channel 13 began broadcasting in the 1960s. The Archive holds institutional records relating to the development of these media enterprises, as well as documents connected to the broader cultural and publishing activities of the university. The Aisthesis magazine, founded through the Center for Aesthetic Research, represents an example of documented media and cultural production in the archive's holdings.
The Archive is housed at the Biblioteca de Humanidades on UC Chile's San Joaquín Campus in Macul. An online searchable repository is available at buscadorarchivohistorico.uc.cl. Services including consultation and reproduction can be requested through the archive's email and telephone contacts. The Archive also collaborates with international partners and participates in digitization initiatives.