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M. Pandžić, Obrazovanje arhivista - usporedni pregled školovanja u raznim zemljama svijeta, Arh. vjesn., god. 40(1997) str. 35^2 Summary ARCHIVAL EDUCATION - COMPARATIVE REVIEW ARCHIVAL EDUCATION IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES All developed and developing countries have been increasingly interested, during last decades, to amplified participation of archival service and universities in the education of various archival professionals. International congresses on archives that are held every four years were always places to discuss archival education. The Xlst, Xllnd and Xlllth Congresses have brought distinguished professionals' papers (ARCHIVUM, vol. 35, year 1988 and vol. 39 year 1992). International Council on Archives has established, in the year 1979, its Professional Education Council. The Council had organized several international seminars. Papers have been published separately, and in the review JANUS. Since in 1966 ICA's secretary, Mr. Ch. Kesckemeti, is collecting data regarding the archival education worldwide. Thus "The List of Schools and Courses for the Professional Education for Archivists" have been published. In the year 1992 the List was updated, and "Directory of Schools and Courses of Professional Training for Archivist" were published by the ICA Education of Archivists Section. Data related to 121 school and post-graduate studies, or 43 countries (5 continents). This magnificent study gives not only basic data like name and address of the school, but also curriculums, number of students, education of the lecturers and so on. It seems that every school has an average of minimum 5 or 10 graduate students every year. Also, the Directory reviews the schools' subjects, number of lectures, and relationship between the lectures and practices. Thus, in every school orientation is visible: 1. Independence or autonomy of the archival study - sometimes with a separate courses for library and information studies. That is also one of the recommendations of the Symposium on archival education, Ljubljana, 1994: "6. ... There has to be uniformity between the program of the archival study (including additional archival sciences) and the balanced integration of new technologies (for data processing)". 2. History of institutions or administration has to be lectured as well. 3. There is jointed realization that archival services would not be able to stop the destruction of the modern records medium, so continued training for the enlargement of the archivists' information science knowledge have to be established. 41