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

Arrowsmith on the integrated service and that will be followed by what we term total information control, the whole concept of records from beginning to end. The parallel sessions will then look at things like acquisition strategy, preservation strategy, staff structures, networking which I think, everywhere is becoming more and more important, and information strategies, and some of the speakers there will be drawn from a series of countries, we have Caes Gränström, we will talking on preservation, on optical disk, and of course, when we are talking about information system strategy I am not sure whether he knows it yet or not, but we will, we hope have Pedro Gonzalez speaking, I hope he does know about it, if not, he does now.

The next session will be concerned with communications, another very important thing for archivists. And here we will be talking about the different strategies for communication, we hope to have an eminent journalist and broadcaster for that session, for the plenary. In the parallel session we will be dealing with communicating with the general public in terms of the user, education, exhibitions, etc. We will be concerned with communicating with related professions, communicating with those who provide the resources, the bosses. I think it is significant that the chairman of that session will be Hermann Rumschöttel, himself a politician as well as an archivist, and also communicating by the media.

There will, I think, also be one half day devoted to the ICA, because one of the purposes of this conference for us as well as trying to make a contribution in Europe is to bring British archivists alive to European issues, and the international dimension. And so we will have various members of ICA presenting the work that the organization achieves. Then there will be a plenary on career development and this will be run in a rather different way. It will be a very brief plenary session and then we will split into discussion groups and each discussion group, all of them, will be meant to cover the following area, in-service training, external courses, structured working in the office as opposed to mobility, exchanges and publications and professional research. And there will be discussions followed by a session to draw those discussions together. Another session will be concerned with resources management, where we hope to have an organizational psychologist, and somebody speaking on output budgeting, and somebody else, David Thomas, talking about planning.

Finally we will be dealing with strategic options in the last session. We will be looking at nationwide archives policies, centralized approach as opposed to a decentralized approach. And then, there will be a summing up by Michael Roper. This heavy program, I promise you, will be interspersed with various excursions.

The conference will not be like this one; a draft program will be going out in the next couple of months, together with preliminary booking forms, and I hope as many of you as possible and your colleagues will be able to attend. And I would ask you sincerely to pass on news of this conference to all your colleagues when you get back home. Well that concludes what I have to say about that conference, which in a way is a successor to Maastricht, but also a successor to this conference.

Now you have to take a leap in imagination and imagine me to be Fritz Lendenmann, who was supposed to speak this morning. He is not here, he had to return, and

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