Torsello, Davide - Pappová, Melinda: Social Networks in Movement. Time, interaction and interethnic spaces in Central Eastern Europe - Nostra Tempora 8. (Somorja-Dunaszerdahely, 2003)
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The District State Archive in Šaľa and regional research 297 unknown to the wider public, had been published in the 1950s. The District State Archive in Šaľa also offers historians a collection of regional publications, starting from the end of the 19,h century. Thanks to the support of the Hungarian Ministry of Cultural Heritage we have successfully recorded a part of the regional press from the 19th century on microfilms. Researchers have access to the collection of postcards as well as photographs which capture moments of life in the region in the period from the last years of the 19th century to the present. Like in other archives in Slovakia, any interested person, be a Slovak or a foreign citizen, has free access to the material preserved in the Archive. Those who use our facilities are mostly historians of regional history, students, and sometimes history teachers. Archival documents can be examined in the study rooms in Šaľa or in its detached laboratory in Lúči na Ostrove. Basic information regarding the archival material can be obtained from the inventories. Those interested also have access to the archival library which is focused on regional history and archival science. The study room of the Archive is open every day from 8.00 to 15.00. Reproduction of documents, whose physical state allows this, is undertaken within the limits of the technical facilities. According to the present law in Slovakia, only documents older than 30 years are accessible to the public and among these only materials which do not contain personal data. However, it needs to be noted that a new archival law is being prepared and after its approval Slovakia should be ranked immediately after Sweden regarding free access to the archival documents. According to this law all material that does not include personal data should become accessible to the public and the 30 years limit period should be abolished. The District State Archive in Šaľa presently has ten employees, of whom four have a university degree and five have completed specialised archival education. From 1994, the Archive has organised regularly scheduled thematic exhibitions from the collected documents4 and since 1998 we
