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The Section of Professional Associations published a digital brochure created to give advocacy advice to the individual archivist and records manager and also to associations. This brochure develops golden rules of advocacy, including elevator pitch and media attention, as well as how to advocate towards politicians and other stakeholders, and how to endorse and promote the UDA (Universal Declaration on Archives).   It is available in the online resource center following this link .  

 A blog from SPA’s spring meeting in Poland by SPA member Vilde Ronge May 28, 2015

The Expert Group on Archive Buildings and Environments of the International Council on Archives (ICA) requests that you complete an online survey to enable the group to speak with more authority on building issues within the membership of ICA. The data results will be anonymous, but the data will enable the group to develop a range of activities to service and advise ICA members on best practice, ensure better standards of care for archival collections, and so embed preservation as a key goal across the membership.

This issue of COMMA intends to show the commonalities and differences in the functions, characteristics and structure of local, municipal and territorial archives in different countries, and how these relate to their political and institutional organization.

Yesterday the Elected Officers (David Fricker, Andreas Kellerhals, Henri Zuber) joined the staff of the Secretariat (David Leitch, Nathalie Florent) in order to express their gratitude to Annick Carteret for her long and conscientious service to ICA. David Fricker, Henri Zuber, David Leitch

  The subject of improved access to archival information has been debated increasingly over the past years, not the least in numerous presentations held at ICA´s conferences. Archives all across the world are marketing their collections in a new way, to create an interest in them. These efforts are often initiated by political decisions. Archives are undergoing great changes, due to new technologies and trends in society, but also because of new needs and demands from their users.

There are 2 vacancies within ICA Secretariat: a Marketing and Communicaion Manager and a Corporate Business Manager. The vacancy notices are downloadable below in English and French Versions. 

This issue is devoted to articles written primarily by individual ICA members.  The articles represent a cross-section of current professional concerns, addressed from a wide range of geographical perspectives.