All users of this website should note that it will be retired from active use and replaced by the new ICA website from 8 December 2010 onwards at www.ica.org.

The ICA Programme Commission will launch its next call for projects by the end of December 2010.

Information at : http://new.ica.org/5632/news-events/next-call-for-projects-prepare-yourself.html

Official website of the 2012 Congress

 

Adopted in principle last year, at the ICA Annual General Meeting in Malta, the Universal Declaration on Archives has now officially become one of the core pillars in ICA's advocacy policy.

Evaluation allows participants' opinions to be gathered and connected with organisers' assessments and CITRA content.

These opinions allow the organisers to measure delegate satisfaction, to fill gaps, to correct errors, and allow them the possibility of making significant changes in planning and delivering the event in future.

ICA’s members throughout the world will be immensely saddened to learn of the death of Jean-Pierre Wallot, the former National Archivist of Canada, on 30 August. 

On the occasion of a workshop organized by the French Ministry of Culture, Jean-Wilfrid Bertrand visited the ICA Secretariat on 28 July 2010. A meeting was held in the presence of Gerard Ermisse and Pascal Even (Service interministériel des Archives de France), David Leitch, Christine Martinez and Christophe Jacobs (ICA Secretariat).

Patrick Cadell's death, at the comparatively young age of sixty-nine, has deprived the archival community of one of its most persuasive advocates. He was one of the true gentlemen of the profession, and he will be remembered with great affection for his exquisite good manners He had a natural disposition to be hospitable, and was capable of great generosity.

Last May 26th, the National Archives and the Archives and Libraries of Belgium celebrated the seventeenth anniversary of André Vanrie and handed him over a Festschrift (celebration publication).

 

This handbook provides thorough, up-to-date information on associations concerned with the fields of librarianship, documentation, information science and archives. The third, completely revised and expanded edition contains over 600 comprehensive and updated entries from over 130 countries.