News and events

Have you registered for the first talk in the EURBICA Lecture Series, taking place next Tuesday 30 May? Dr. Karl Heinz, co-founder and general manager of ICARUS (International Centre for Archival Research), will be talking to us about the European Digital Treasures Project. 

“Archivists at home” began as brainstorming advocacy tool by the Accessibility & Disability Section (Society of American Archivists) for developing a more flexible concept of archival labor, whether it is archivists working from home due to COVID-19 or archivists with disabilities.  The document has evolved in scope to address needs of the archival community grappling with COVID-19 broadly, ranging from the workplace, choosing to temporarily close an archives, to working from home, supporting student and contingent workers, and a new section on flipping the narrative of COVID-19.

The Endangered Archives Programme administered by the British Library and supported by the Arcadia Fund seeks to preserve cultural heritage and make it available to as wide an audience as possible. The Programme fund digitisation projects to record the content of archives, which can include rare printed sources, manuscripts, visual materials, or audio recordings.

As from the beginning of this year I am honored to shoulder the responsibility as Chairperson of the European Branch of the International Council on Archives (EURBICA).  With over 900 members, EURBICA is one of the largest entities within the International Council on Archives (ICA).  Apart from this, EURBICA is the main pan-European professional body which covers archival activity in and outside the European Union.

The international heritage institute of France organises a seminar on written heritage: Archives and libraries are two modes of preservation and valuation of written documents. It is as if the written heritage and the archival heritage were two parallel entities ignoring each other. This contradictory device is the product of a history that this seminar intends to address from training and professional practices, political and legal issues and functions assigned to the archiving and collection of written documents.

The Association of Commonwealth Archivists and Records Managers (ACARM) organised its 2017 symposium on the theme of ‘Imaging Imperialism’, hosted by the National Archives of Malta on the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, 27th October 2017. The event was sponsored by EURBICA through an ICA Programme Commission grant.

If you stay in Paris in the beginning of september, don’t miss until the 18th, the exhibition in National Archives in the Marais.« Experiencing chaos : destructions, spoliation and rescuing archives. 1789-1945 » You can also buy the book which offers documents of the exhibition and other ones. It is in French but with a lot of reproductions  and  photos, including one of the burned mauscripts of Timbuktu, Mali, in 2013. Read more