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Date Added:11 August 2011
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SPA News, April 2013
April 29, 2013
The Steering Committee of the Section of Professional Associations (SPA) held its annual planning meeting in Amersfoort, The Netherlands, from April 22nd to 24th, 2013. The meeting was hosted by Dr Fred van Kan, General Director of Gelders Archief and President of KVAN, the Royal Association of Archivists.
The resolution SPA adopted is the following :
At its April 2013 meeting in Amsterdam, the Steering Committee of the Section of Professional Associations of the International Council on Archives (ICA SPA) expressed its concern about the draft European Data Protection Regulation that will result in the destruction of personal data and recommends that the members of ICA SPA promote, in- and outside their associations, the signing of a petition initiated by the French Association of Archivists AAF (https://www.change.org/petitions/the-european-parliament-adjourn-the-adoption-of-the-regulation-about-personal-data). ICA SPA emphasizes that archives are a unique and irreplaceable heritage and play an essential role in the development of societies by safeguarding the individual and community memory (UNESCO Universal Declaration on Archives as adopted by UNESCO in 2011).
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SPA News, June 2012
August 18, 2012
The Steering Committee of the Section of Professional Associations (SPA) held its annual planning meeting in Weimar, Germany between 26 and 28 March. The meeting was hosted by Dr Bernhard Post, the Director of the Thuringia Central Archives and the German archives association, Verband deutscher Archivarinnen und Archivare.
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The SPA Manual
July 22, 2012
This manual brings together in one online document guidelines produced by SPA to assist professional associations manage their organisations and services delivered to members