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  1. ICA AGM adopts unanimously the Principles of Access to Archives : a Success for Transparency and Right to Information

    ICA AGM adopts unanimously the Principles of Access to Archives : a Success for Transparency and Right to Information

    September 12, 2012

    Access is the availability of records for consultation as a result both of legal authorization and the existence of finding aids.

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  2. Principles for Access to Archives : give your opinon now !

    Principles for Access to Archives : give your opinon now !

    August 18, 2011

     In the last year an ICA Working Group has developed a draft set of principles for access to archives. These principles are intended to be applicable across linguistic and cultural divides, and in different political regimes.

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  3. Meeting of the Committee on Best Practices and Standards/Working Group on Archival Description, Bucharest, Romania, May 23-27 2011

    Meeting of the Committee on Best Practices and Standards/Working Group on Archival Description, Bucharest, Romania, May 23-27 2011

    May 17, 2011

    The next meeting of the Committee on Best Practices and Standards/Working Group on Archival Descrption will meet in Bucharest, Romania on 23-27 May 2011 at the invitation of the National Archives of Romania.

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  4. Principles on access in the crosshairs of ICA

    Principles on access in the crosshairs of ICA

    February 16, 2011

    What is the line between access and reference service?  What are the differences in access to records of public bodies and records of private institutions?  How does access for purposes of defending human rights differ from access for other research purposes?

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  5. Working group on access: consultative meeting in Paris, France, on 7-8 February 2011

    Working group on access: consultative meeting in Paris, France, on 7-8 February 2011

    November 29, 2010

    Last May 2010 the new working group on access, aiming to develop principles in this field, met for first time in Paris.

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  6. Meeting of the Committee on Best Practices and Standards/WG on Archival Description, Paris, France, May 2010

    Meeting of the Committee on Best Practices and Standards/WG on Archival Description, Paris, France, May 2010

    February 10, 2010

    Meeting of the Committee on Best Practices and Standards/WG on Archival Description, Paris, France, May 25-27, 2010.

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