Sonderband 2. International Council on Archives. Dritte Europäische Archivkonferenz, Wien 11. bis 15. Mai 1993. Tagungsprotokolle (1996)

1. Session / Séance. Experiences gained, current Situation, future Prospects / Expériences acquises, Situation actuelle, Perspectives futures - Discussion / Interventions

1. Session/Séance: Discussion - Interventions

que, à mon avis, ce sont les autres institutions, les universités qui sont en charge de la formation. Donc je voudrais bien voir si ces imbrications sont une chose qu’il faut envisager pour le futur, comment dirais-je, dans une façon gobale, ou si on pourrait individualiser des façons de coopération en futurr et au mesure des projets concrets.

Ce sont les institutions archivistiques qui doivent collaborer, sur ce sujet-là, ce sont les institutions archivistiques, les gouvernements, les ministères des affaires étrangères - n’oublions jamais les ministères des affaires étrangères, qui sont toujours présents à cette table, du moins à l’esprit - et les universités par exemple et les individus, des professionnels. Je voudrais savoir si à la fin de la conférence on tiendra compte de ces niveaux institutionnels ou non-institutionnels pour donner des recommandations et pour envisager des façons formelles de coopération ou si on pourrait avoir tout de suite des projets sur lesquels travailler ensemble.

Ivân Borsa: Als pensionierter Archivbeamter kann ich Frau Rinaldi Mariani keine Antwort geben, ein Problem der internationalen Zusammenarbeit wird jedoch immer die Zuständigkeit der einzelnen Regierungsstellen sein. Alles in allem kann Kooperation über die Grenzen hinweg nur positiv sein und administrative Probleme sind allemal zu lösen.

T. Lekaukau-Masisi: Having read the papers and listened to the presentations and the debate this afternoon, I get the feeling that the levels and the areas of actual and potential cooperation in Europe are not very different from what we envisage in the Third World. The only difference perhaps would be that in the case of Third World countries you would involve one or two or even more countries in the developed world, mainly the former colonial power or the former colonial powers.

Kirill Anderson: Thank you. Any more questions, please? If you allow, I give word to myself. Well, you see we have reached the philosophical or human level of cooperation, we know how to do it because of our experiences in management, at conferences, etc. But you know, in Russia we were brought up in a purely materialistic spirit of Marxism. That’s the reason why I think without financial support all this cooperation will end in very lovely and very social conversation, but nothing else.

I am in favor of practical steps, for example stages for younger employees of the archives. In Russian history we have a nice example: Czar Peter the Great traveled to Holland and when he came back he reformed Russia; but unfortunately archivists are neither czars nor emperors, and they have little authority to change even the situation in the archives. According to the experience with our younger employees, the result of such stage is that they go abroad and stay in the guest country for a month, they have new experiences and see the nice equipment like computers; when they came back they complain about the miserable education and the poor situation in Russian archives. - At least, they leave the archives and try to earn money in the field of free enterprise. This is one of the results of such stages. Of course, I am in favor of sending people abroad, but often this kind of exchange of experience bet75