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.  

In a bid to preserve and narrate the over four centuries old history and evolution of Kolkata, the city's civic authorities have launched a comprehensive archive, complete with rare photographs, texts and digital records.Said to be India's first municipal archive, the 'Amal Home Digital Archive' has been developed and curated by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC).

Registration is now open for Audiovisual Archives in Universities and Research Institutions, the 2015 annual conference of the Section on University and Research Institution Archives of the International Council on Archives. The conference will be held on 13-16 July in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. The program will address the increasing role that audiovisual archives play in documenting our institutions, societies, and cultures and explore the challenges posed by these archives in universities and research institutions.

 

The Archives of the Catholic University of Louvain and the State Archives of Geneva invite you to the 15th Archives Day on the 23rd and 24th of April 2015 in Louvain-la-Neuve. Theme of the meeting is: Archivists in fifteen years, new expectations, new responsibilities, new challenges?