Sonderband 2. International Council on Archives. Dritte Europäische Archivkonferenz, Wien 11. bis 15. Mai 1993. Tagungsprotokolle (1996)
Closing Session / Séance de Clôture - Conclusions and Recommandations / Conclusions et recommandations
Closing Session - Séance de Clôture lieh einigen Arbeitseinsatz erfordern, aber es kamen damals zuwenig ermunternde Reaktionen, um die Idee fortzuführen. Charles Burns: I would like to add a personal reflection, a personal word, a personal greeting, namely that peace is essential for the archives. Archives thrive in times of peace, in times of war they are dispersed or even destroyed. And archives, archivists also thrive in times of peace, in times of war we are dismayed, we are disillusioned. So let the genuine esteem and conviviality that have characterized this conference be constructive and productive for peace, and my own wish, personal wish, to all of you is that there be peace in our hearts, in our homes, on our ramparts. Kenneth Hall: Well, I’d just like to thank Charly for very kindly giving me a doctorate, it’s by far the easiest way to obtain one. Those of you who were at Montreal, will remember the splendid presentation given by our Chinese colleagues when they presented at the closing session of that congress what was going to happen in Beijing. And you will remember that a splendid dragon spent 20 minutes entering the conference hall and then another 20 minutes with even more cymbals going out. Now I had planned something like that this morning, to tell you about what’s going to happen in the UK next year, but thanks to a decided lack of cooperation from Mr. Peball this has not been possible. I thought that it will be appropriate for us to have a dragon, because the patient Saint of England is St. George and he killed a dragon. But Mr. Peball said that a dragon breathing fire would be a fire risk and it was not possible in an archive. And I said no, I did not mean that sort of dragon, I meant a British dragon at which point he said that he thought that Mrs. Thatcher had already retired. However, let me instead give you a very low-key presentation of what we are planning. First of all, the conference will be taking place in Lancaster, which is a county in which until recently I was county-archivist of, and it will be taking place September 13-18, 1994. It’s theme will be „archives’ strategies for success“ and that does not mean, as somebody said unkindly just after breakfast this morning that the strategy of success for an archivist was to become a librarian. What we are trying to do is to follow in some way the Maastricht model, but I have to tell you now, that it will not be on the lavish scale of Maastricht. We expect something like 270 participants and it will be held at the University in Lancaster, a fairly new University and for those of you who have the accommodation in an English university hall of residence you will know precisely what to expect. The theme will be developed by a series of plenary sessions which will each be followed up by a number of parallel sessions. The keynote paper will be given, we’re able to say at this moment, by David Vaisey, who is the librarian at the Bodleian in Oxford. But as many of you will know, he was formerly keeper of western manuscripts in the Bodleian, and he is a very eminent member of our profession. So the keynote will be given by him and this will be followed by a session on „What makes archives successful?“ We hope to have a paper by Eckart Franz on the German model of what an archive institution should be. We will then have a contrasting paper by Amanda 453
