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Donations in aid of the archives of Kosova



National Archives offer donations in aid of the archives of Kosova

Forwarding the request of the archivists in Kosova, the Open Society
Archives (OSA) made an appeal to the international community of archivists
to donate special, archival quality boxes to the archives in Kosova to meet
their most pressing and urgent needs in preserving the endangered holdings
there. The Call for Action was officially announced in Seville at the 14th
International Congress on Archives, in September 2000.

Following the January 2000 report of UNESCO, Council of Europe and ICA, OSA
sent its Senior Archivist to Kosova on a fact-finding mission in June 2000.
Based on his report OSA prepared a recommendation identifying the needs
that require immediate or longer-term action. The recommendation states
that, inter alia, approximately 10,000 archival boxes are needed to
protect, organize and make accessible the archival material in the war-
stricken country. To make the first move in this respect OSA has already
sent 500 archival boxes with the help of the Hungarian KFOR forces.

OSA is turning directly to the chief archivists of the European countries,
asking them to donate archival boxes to the value of USD 500. As has been
offered, OSA will be administering the donations. It will order the boxes
according to the needs of the archives of Kosova, indicate the name of the
donors, and forward the boxes to Kosova.

OSA was pleased to learn that Norway, Switzerland and Sweden have already
joined and offered their donations.

The text of the recommendation and the Call for Action can be found at
OSA?s website at
http://www.osa.ceu.hu/bridge/projects&partners/Call%20For%20Action.htm

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Leszek Pudlowski, Chief Archivist
OPEN SOCIETY ARCHIVES at CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY
Nador u. 9, H-1051 Budapest, P.O. Box 1082, H-1245, Hungary
Phone: (36 1) 327 3250, 327 3269, fax: (36 1) 327 3260
E-mail: archives@ceu.hu, pudlowski@altavista.net
http://www.osa.ceu.hu

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