ICA- Section Local, Municipal and Territorial Archives

16/07/2024

AtoM Virtual exhibition

AtoM - Archives and Traces of Migration, is an european project thats aims to contribute to innovation in the archival sector, specifically in the development of new documentary and archival practices related to migration. The proposals seeks to explore issues of appraisal, preservation, description and access of archival and documentary heritage material that documents emigration, expatriation, immigration, and diaspora communities, with clear contributions to the social inclusion of these communities through archival heritage and archival practices.

Historical migrations can be presented from many perspectives. The AToM project presents migration from the perspectives of individuals and their life stories. The virtual exhibition, through a scrollytelling approach, showcases personal narratives recorded in documentary and archival material, as well as oral testimonies. Archival traces of migration are dispersed globally. The exhibition highlights the complexity of migration research for scholars, members of migrant communities, and their descendants.



You can follow the exhibition on the following accounts:



Instagram: .exhibition

Twitter:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61561334499083

The virtual exhibition focuses on life stories, featuring both renowned historical figures and individuals less known on a national scale but significant to their families and local communities.

12/06/2024

Business plan and archive services - this is how Aarhus City Archives has chosen to do. I would like to share our experiences and strategies with you for inspiration.

In this 64-page document, we have collected descriptions of the services we work with. There are four themes: Strategic initiatives and partnerships, Archive operation and digitalisation, Selected (other) projects & IT services. All themes are described using the following angles: • Fact box • Strategic aim • Description • Results • Potentials. Some adjustments to the audience service are being worked on (reading room, self-service solutions), so an updated version will come later.

The document is in Danish, but Google Translate or another service can translate it into your language. Follow the link (https://stadsarkiv.aarhus.dk/media/ejalrk5n/servicesbeskrivelser-samlet.pdf)

25/04/2024

Registrations are open!

The new edition of the Image and Research Conference (18th Antoni Varés Conference) will be held in Girona between November 20 and 23, 2024. The Conference is a biennial event to reflect on and share knowledge about the management of photographic and audiovisual heritage.
The presentations will take place at the Palau de Congressos on November 21 and 22 and the workshops will be held at the Municipal Archive of Girona on the 20 and 23. You can now register for the presentations sessions and workshops.

More information here: https://www.girona.cat/sgdap/cat/jornades_inici_2024_ENG.php

05/03/2024

SLMT is proud to know that our committee member
Andrew Chernevych a leading partner in this crucial effort.
Please see Andrew's LinkedIn below:
https://ca.linkedin.com/in/achernevych

In response to the urgent need to safeguard Ukraine’s cultural heritage amidst conflict-related challenges, the International Council on Archives (ICA) is leading a ground-breaking initiative funded by the International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas (ALIPH). Through an Emergency Relief Grant awarded in June 2023, the ICA, in collaboration with various professional experts and archival institutions on the ground, is providing essential support to facilitate the preservation of invaluable archival documents in Ukraine.

https://www.ica.org/ukrainian-archives-forge-ahead-with-emergency-digitization-project-amidst-crisis/

International Council on Archives - Ukrainian Archives Forge Ahead with Emergency Digitization Project Amidst Crisis

29/01/2024

SEMINAR ON ARCHIVES AND TOURISM

The Lloret de Mar City Council, the Diputació de Girona
and the Generalitat de Catalunya organize the holding in
Lloret de Mar of a biennial seminar on “Archives and Tourism”,
which should facilitate bringing the history of tourism closer
to Society from multiple perspectives and in this way make
known the importance of preserving and making this
documentation accessible in both public and private entities
all over the world.

The seminar "Archives and Tourism" (Arxius i Turisme), which will include presentations, roundtables and several communication sessions, will be held in Lloret de Mar on Friday, May 24. Likewise, complementary academic
activities have been planned for Thursday the 23rd, in the afternoon and Saturday the 25th, in the morning. This seminar also includes a social program with different proposals of a tourist-cultural nature.

TOPICS OF THE SEMINAR

1. STUDIES IN ARCHIVISTICS
This line of work focuses on the preservation of documentary heritage, and the diffusion of documentation related to tourism. Communications must deal with work carried out in funds linked to the tourism world:
Fund recovery policies (public and private)
Specific treatment: organization, description, inventories, catalogues, digitization...
Diffusion experiences: exhibitions, social networks, documentaries...

2. STUDIES RELATED TO TOURISM
This topic is focused on the research and study of data, documents and archives linked to tourism. Diverse fields related on tourism studies are proposed: historical, geographical, economic, sociological, cultural...
Identification of funds for the study of tourism
Research experiences in different areas of study: historical, economic, landscape, social, heritage...
Development of tools available for research: resource guides...

3. STUDIES RELATED TO THE GENERATION AND MANAGEMENT OF DOCUMENTATION AND DATA
This area of work is focused on how data and information management is currently proposed in tourism activities.
How to preserve all this data for future generations: electronic documents, the dissemination of messages through social networks, photographs and videos generated by your companies...
Implementation of systems for the management and protection of data and documents in the tourism sector
Data and document exploitation systems
Application of the Data Protection Act
Other topics can be raised that may be considered of interest for achieving the different objectives set

If you wish to participate in the Seminar, you can send your communication proposals to the email address [email protected]

The submission of communications must be made before Wednesday, February 23, 2024.
Notification of acceptance will be made on Monday, March 15, 2024. Requirements:

1. Title.
2. Summary of 400 words maximum.
3. First and last name, email address and short curriculum vitae, with a maximum of 200 words.
4.Thematic axis to which the proposal is framed: 1 / 2 / 3

The organization plans to publish a collective work with the texts of the presentations, communications and summary of the roundtable.

ARXIUS I TURISME
[email protected]
arxiusiturisme.cathttps://www.lloret.cat/seccions/i-seminari-arxius-i-turisme

L’Ajuntament de Lloret de Mar, la Diputació de Girona i la Generalitat de Catalunya organitzen la realització a Lloret de Mar d’un seminari sobre “Arxius i Turisme”, que ha de facilitar l’apropament de la història del turisme a la societat des de múltiples perspectives i d’aquesta ma...

19/12/2023

Do you have sports archives in your collection – and are you ready to talk about it? The Section on Sport Archives invites SLMT members to a Round Table on June 12, 2024 (4:00 to 5:00 pm Paris time). The subject is the importance and use of sports archives for local and municipal archives and how to expand collaboration among different kinds of archives.

13/10/2023

The ICA Congress is coming to an end tomorrow. It has been my pleasure to represent the interests of city and local archives on behalf of the Section for Local, Municipal and Territorial Archives. The overarching theme of this grand event in Abu Dhabi has been ‘Enriching Knowledge Societies’ and I have tried to voice the contributions of our archives in that respect at the Executive Board Meeting, with a Lightning Talk called ‘Local archives represent all of us’, at the ICA Booth and with a paper ‘New Digital Approaches to empowering Local Communities at West European City Archives’ at a panel about collective memory. There was time also for a Business Meeting. The results of this will be communicated to members soon in details, but the mainline was preparing for the ICA Conference in Barcelona 2025. We will invite members of SLMT to meet in-between, hopefully in Catalonia in 2024, and discuss subjects such as making city council minutes and protocols available, managing photographic and visual records. Members, stay tuned – thanks for your interest in SLMT.

18/09/2023

Dear member of SLMT – Section of Local, Municipal and Territorial Archives

In a short while archivists and other professionals from all parts of the world will be joining the ICA Conference in Abu Dhabi from October 9 to October 13. I am glad to share with you that our section – SLMT – will have a solid presence there.

The Business Meeting will be on Monday October 9, Capital Suite 16 at 14:00 – 16:00 (Abu Dhabi time). Please let us know if you had issues you would like to present at the Business Meeting. We welcome all kind of informal and easy-going presentations. The point of the meeting is to share knowledge and ideas and to strengthen the bonds between us. Are you coming to the Business Meeting? Please, tell us – but come anyway if you can. Everyone is welcome.

The paper ‘New Digital Approaches to empowering Local Communities at West-European City Archives’ is scheduled in the session 2.05: Collective Memory on Thursday October 12, Congress Room A at 9:00-10:30.

A lightning talk to present the SLMT, ‘Local archives represent all of us’, is given by Soren Bitsch Christensen in Hive 5, Tuesday October 10 at 13.30-15.00.

Other relevant papers are of course to be found in other sessions, please take a look at the program Programme ICA Congress Abu Dhabi 2023 -

Finally, the SLMT is present at the ‘Who's Who’ at ICA! program at the ICA booth, Tuesday October 10 at 17-17.45.



We hope to meet some of You!

They are contemporary records created by individuals and organisations as they go about their business and therefore provide a direct window on past events.

18/09/2023

London Metropolitan Archives has published its Summer Newsletter 2023

From early 20th century housing to the Court of Orphans, taking in image detectives and Sicilian fairies. All this and more in the new issue of the LMA newsletter.

13/09/2023

The presentations of our webinar The Archives as a destination are now available on our website https://www.ica.org/en/presentations-webinar-the-archives-as-a-destination-now-available

28/08/2023

Vacation memories

I often drop by the local archives when on vacation. Sometimes planned and settled in advance, but most often I just walk in from the street. I like to see archives as an important part of the leisure and tourist sector that serves both locals and visitors. And happily, more and more archives developed visitors’ centers, exhibitions, digital services, or the like – or just simply give people a warm and service-minded welcome.

This summer I was in Lisbon with my family. Lisbon has a rich treasury of archives. Some hold records from religious institutions, the Port of Lisbon has its own Documentation and Archive Centre, there is an Overseas Historical Archive, and of course the famous National Archive of Torre do Tombo. However, I went to see the Photographic Archive, Arquivo Fotográfico, part of the Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa, in the lively and up-coming neighborhood of Mouraria.

Formally established in 1942, after successive changes of premises, so it says on the website, it was definitively installed in 1994 at number 246, Rua da Palma, a building specially adapted to receive this cultural equipment. It contains more than 600,00 photographic items from the City’s administration.

My wife, son and I were greeted by a friendly reception staff and shown to the impressive exhibition rooms. The curated pictures were displayed with a variety of digital interactive installations, hanging-on-the-wall, 19th centuries cameras (to look into, great for the kid!) and good texts.

I will share more vacation archive memories in the weeks to come.

Do you have a memory to share?

Søren Bitsch Christensen, Chair of Section of Local, Municipal and Territorial Archives, ICA.

19/06/2023

WEBINAR – THE ARCHIVE AS A DESTINATION

JUNE 21 at 11:00 – 13:00 CET (UK 10-12 / AUS (Melbourne) 18-20 / ISR 13-15)

In this webinar, we will explore an important topic in the field of archives: how to make users feel welcome and accommodated in archival spaces and reading rooms.

Join us as we delve into the ways in which archives can best tailor their physical spaces to meet the needs of users, while also fulfilling the crucial requirements for the protection of archival material. We will explore how archives can showcase their collections to attract audiences, whether through exhibitions or events, or indeed through collaboration with museums, and will also consider the importance of seeking feedback from users to ensure that physical and digital access is optimized.

Our expert panel of speakers from London Metropolitan Archives, Stockholm City Archives and Queensland State Archives will share their insights and experiences, offering practical advice and thought-provoking ideas for how archives can create a more welcoming and inclusive environment for all users. After each presentation, we will invite questions from the participants and open the floor for knowledge sharing at the end of the session.

We look forward to your participation in this engaging and informative webinar about how we can build a more user-centered approach to archives. Please sign up to the webinar by contacting Dr. Anette Larner at [email protected] before June 20.

The Webinar will be recorded and published on the SLMT website. “