Posted here is the text draft of a paper published by the UK Society of Archivists in autumn 2002 under the title Meeting the Montreal Protocol. It is posted for a member who requested such information but may also be of interest to others, perhaps especially archivists or librarians who have yet to meet the protocol's 2003 deadline to replace Halon fire suppression systems with approved alternatives.

Dear Colleagues,

Notes and materials from the symposium, “Human Rights Archives and Documentation: Transforming Ideas Into Practice,” hosted by the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut in March 2008, and co-sponsored by the Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research at Columbia University Libraries and the Center for Research Libraries Global Resources Network, are now available on the Dodd Center’s website. The direct link is below.

http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/speclib/ASC/outreach/human_righ...

I have just posted an article on my blog about a pilot project that will be testing the ICA-AtoM software for use in a provincial union list of archival descriptions here in British Columbia, Canada.

http://archivemati.ca/2008/04/26/ica-atom-goes-provincial/

The article also contains some more current information about the status of the ICA-AtoM software development.

As well, on May 6-7, the first meeting of the ICA-AtoM Steering Committee will take place at the Dutch Archiefschool in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

The program BARM (= Bangladesh Archives & Records Management) is aiming at creating good conditions for development. The bottom line is: Archives and Records are tools for honest, effective
and democratic government and honest history writing, history teaching and journalism. In 1995 a cooperation between archivists and historians from Bangladesh and Netherlands, was initiated giving advise to the National Archives of Bangladesh (=NAB) on improvement of the Archives & Records Management.
Archives and Records are information sources. These information sources

Dear colleagues,

N° 1 of the "Newsletter on Archives and Human Rights" is now available at the following address: http://www.unesco.org/archives/hrgnews/

Best regards,

Jens Boel
Chief Archivist
UNESCO

27 March 2008

Dear Group Members

Thank you for signing up to the Group! I am delighted to see that we are already the largest group on the site and growing all the time. I will continue promoting the Group to conservation people and others during the coming weeks. If you know of online lists and sites aimed at archive and library professionals researchers and students in your own country, do please announce the formation of this Group and encourage people to join.

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30 juin – 3 juillet 2008 / 30 June – 3 July 2008 / 30 de junio – 3 de julio de 2008
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I am very pleased to have just begun a position at the French National Archives, in the Ancien Régime section. While on leave from the French civil service over a number of years, I had university and research posts in Chile and the United States. Before my time in the academic world, I worked in French departmental archives, the Institut national de l'audiovisuel (film production archives of the French National TV) and at the Direction des Archives de France, in the division that sets archival policies and norms.