Archival training seminar for archive staff in Banja Luka and Sarajevo

Start Year: 2001 – End Year: 2005

Archival training seminar for archive staff in Banja Luka and Sarajevo

Funded by the Catalan Cooperation Agency of the Generalitat of Catalonia, basic training seminars in archival science were organized in 2001 in a first phase, and in 2005 for technical workers from different archives in the cities of Sarajevo and Banja Luka.

During 2001, the collaboration project with the National Archives of Bosnia and Herzegovina was initiated. Several archival training courses were held for workers in the centers of the National Archives of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the municipal archives of this Republic. The training courses that were given aimed to facilitate the organization of the documentary collections of the archives that survived the Balkan War in order to guarantee the conservation of the documentation and the possible consultation. Arxivers sin Fronteres also coordinated the donation of a microfilmer by the National Archives of Andorra to the Municipal Archives of Sarajevo, which was transferred to the headquarters of this archive with the collaboration of Conductors Solidaris. Likewise, these centers were provided with a collection of publications that was provided by the Association of Archivists of Catalonia.

Two more training courses were held in 2005, one for the staff of the Sarajevo Municipal Archive and the other for the Banja Luka Municipal Archive. In the first archival center, the objective was to provide archivists with a specialization course on archival description based on the international ISAD(G) standards issued by the International Council on Archives, and in the second case, a basic course on archival methodology was given to staff who were new to this discipline.