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THE NEW BULLETIN OF ARCHIVERS WITHOUT BORDERS
Archives on the front lines, protecting memory in uncertain times
Pepita Raventós, head of the Archives and Document Management service at the University of Lleida, reflects on the event held during International Archives Week and jointly organized by the University of Lleida, the National Archive of Catalonia and Archivists Without...
Interview with Ramon Alberch i Fugueras, founder of AsF and Creu de Sant Jordi 2026
"For his career in archival science, documentary heritage and democratic memory, and for his contribution to the modernization and international projection of the Catalan archival model." For his role in defending archives as guarantors of rights and collective...
Experiències d’Arxiu a la República de Paraguai
Mario Omar Fernández –– Archivo en avanzado estado de deterioro. Colombia 2016. Por Mario Omar Fernández Durante décadas, una estrategia para preservar el patrimonio ha priorizado el control de factores como la humedad, la temperatura o la iluminación en las...
9th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF ARCHIVES (ICA)
The 9th International Council on Archives Conference ( https://ica2022roma.com/ ), entitled Archives: Bridging the Gap , was held in Rome on 21, 22 and 23 September, with the participation of Archivists Without Borders (AsF). The ICA International Council Conference...
EDITORIAL 31 – The Archivists Without Borders Newsletter continues to evolve. We welcome the #AsFBlog.
In recent years, Archivists Without Borders has tried to keep the Bulletin alive, always understood as one of the most important and original communication tools of the organization. Initially, the Bulletin was a document that was sent by post, then it became a...
COLLABORATE TO PROGRESS: ESAGED students get involved with AsF
Everyone who has taken a degree or a master's degree has had the feeling that what was explained in class sometimes had little to do with the reality of the non-academic world. As if the teaching staff lived on another planet. Avoiding this is one of the great...
An archival look at climate change
On December 10, International Human Rights Day was commemorated, the date on which the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 is remembered. 84 years have passed since this event and the challenges posed by this document have evolved over time....
The memory of the Casal
Last July 2023, a delegation from Archivists Without Borders (AsF) carried out an intervention in the archive of the Casal Català de Tolosa de Llenguadoc, a prominent association of Catalan cultural actions abroad since the exile of the 1940s, after the Republican...
AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE FOR ARCHIVISTRY AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION PROJECTS IN ARCHIVES
Archival science is in a very encouraging moment of professional and academic expansion, marked mainly by dialogue with information and computer sciences and, therefore, in a scenario of greater standardization at an international level. However, it is essential to...
THE ARCHIVES IN MEMORY POLICIES. Some learnings from the Colombian experience.
During the last 20 years, the international discourse on human rights has dealt with an essential question for the clarification of crimes against humanity committed in repressive regimes and armed conflicts: what measures must be implemented to safeguard and widely...