Arkiv for alle!

Seminar i Det Nordisk Arkivformidlingsnetværk på Københavns Rådhus d. 19.- 20. april 2007.In April 2007 a network of archivists from Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark met in Copenhagen to discuss the outreach of archives in terms of education and communication. The purpose of the seminar was to exchange experiences and to generate new and creative ideas. Such an exchange of experiences is important, because there are few people working in this field in the Nordic countries. This was an opportunity for sharing different initiatives.The participants were all convinced that it is desirable to get more people to use the archives. Hence one of the main subjects was how to get more people interested in the institutions. Four of the participants told about different new initiatives which they had tried out. These consisted of experiments with different types of art in the archives, virtual education and the use of a method called hot spot. The result of the seminar was two specific projects. The first was to put together an anthology, primarily because there is a great lack of material about the outreach of the archives. The second was a project about using art in the archives, in which several of the participants showed great interest. A lot of other inspiring ideas were shared and there is definitely a basis for more meetings in the network and more cooperation between the Nordic countries