International Archives Week 2019 3-9 June and International Archives Day 2019 June 9

A lot of campaigns are coming up during the International Archives Week 2019.
The International Council on Archives (@ICArchiv) introduces a week to celebrate International Archives Day.
The Grande Finale on June 9, International Archives Day, will be organized by the Archives and Records Association Scotland (@ARAScot) with an edition of their successful 'something' campaign.

The Twitter initiatives @FollowAnArchive (2010) and @AskArchivistst (2011) are happy to support the ICA initiative and the ARAScott initiative.

So we will not, like we have done from 2012 untill 2018, organize an event on Twitter on International Archives Day ourselves.

The following introduction of International Archives Week is a copy of the text on the website of ICA:

Celebrate with #DesigningYourArchives in #IAW2019

The International Council on Archives invite you to celebrate the International Archives Week 2019 on the theme of the conference Adelaide 2019, 'Designing the Archive' which will take place in South Australia from 21 to 25 October.

From Monday 3 to Sunday 9 June 2019, celebrate the International Archives Week in your institution, your company or your department. Use this global event for archivists and records managers in order to make known the role of archives and share your experience and the importance of your work. Show that the archives profession is fun, inclusive, varied and that your expertise is helpful to everyone
How are you designing your archives for the 21st century?

Designing the Archive is about putting people at the centre of what we do. The campaign theme will focus on how in the 21st Century our profession -data and information managers, records managers and archivists- can provides opportunities for human-centred design approaches to ensure we deliver benefits to citizens, customers, stakeholders and communities. This cross cuts, not only geographical boundaries, but sectors and industries; we want to hear from archivists representing architecture to fashion, engineering to environmental management, public-sector and private-sector.

From paper to digital, how are you designing your archives for the 21st century? Let’s challenge what people think we do! Help us tell the world what archives in the 21st Century are about!

Share with us your vision of archives and your profession, and show us how you will celebrate archivists’ achievements from Monday 3 to Sunday 9 June 2019!
Don't forget to use the hashtags #IAW2019 and #DesigningYourArchives !

'Something' on #IAD19

Something big, something amazing, something old, something weird... We keep all kinds of stuff in our archives worthwhile keeping it!
The Archives and Records Association Scotland introduced their #IAD19 campaign for June 9 during the ARA Innovative Social Media for Archives Event #ArchiveSocialMedia at the University of Stirling on May 23, 2019. We trust it will be as good as their #Archive30 campaigns in 2018 and 2019!

May 31, 2019 ARAScot released their list of topics. Tweet on June 9, International Archives Day, every hour something of the list to show a little something from your collections. Don't forget to use the hashtag  #IAD19 !

We are very much looking forward to all your contributions!

Have a great International Archives Week and International Archives Day!

Charlotte S.H. Jensen and Anneke van Waarden-Koets
Follow An Archive and Ask Archivists

#archivesmemory on International Archives Day 2018

Diary of Hendrik Brouwer (1769-1817), wine merchant in Middelburg and member of the city council. Zeeuws Archief | Zeeland Archives - Archive Family Brouwer, nr 1.

 

Twitter event on #IAD18 : #archivesmemory

International Archives Day 2018 #IAD18 is coming up! Like every year Ask Archivists and Follow An Archive organize a celebration event on Twitter on June 9.

With the celebration event we join the theme ‘Archives, Governance, Memory and Heritage’ of the International Council on Archives (ICA).

The theme of the annual Twitter event will be: #archivesmemory. It’s about memories in archives, archives as memory of the community, our country, the world: our collective memory. But also memories of archivists and users of archives.

Memories in archives

We can say that all archives are memories. Or all archives contain memories. Archives form our collective memory. And all people who work in or with archives have memories of their work with archives, their visits to archives, their researches in archives, their participation in activities organized by archives and archivists.

Lots of archives keep documents about memories in their collections. Think of letters, diaries, friendsbooks, postcards, photographs, drawings. But we can also think about documents of governments and organisations about all kinds of activities.

All those documents can be a contribution to the Twitter event #archivesmemory. The format is quite open: tweet a scan, do an infographic, gif, animation, blogpost, podcast, flashmob, picture album – just make sure to tweet it, using the hashtag #archivesmemory.
Archives are full of memories

So, fellow archivists, let's make a memory tour in our depots and show our most beautiful, special, memorable, valuable, extraordinary memory documents in our archives on June 9, International Archives Day, and contribute to ‘Archives, Governance, Memory and Heritage’!

How can we show memory in our archives?

• Ego-documents, like diaries, letters, friendsbooks, photo albums, etc.
• Postcards with greetings to loved ones at home
• Photographs and portraits of loved ones
• Photographs and drawings made to remember things that happened
• Books about memories
• Sound, music, video, film, containing memories or brings you memories
• Documents of governments and organizations that brings you an 'AH-erlebnis'
• All kinds of archival stuff that brings you memories
• Memories of the archives building or your working places in archives
• Memories of your work as an archivist
• Memories of your research in archives
• Memories of your visit to an archive or your contact with archivists
• Memories of any kind connected with archives and archivists

Make a memory yourself and organize an event on International Archives Day

• Make a memory tour in your depots, alone, with colleagues, with visitors
• Invite children/adults to make a memorable drawing or picture of their visit to your archive
• Make an exhibition about memories in your city in your archives building or in the city, perhaps together with visitors, artists or a school
• Organize a memorable event, make pictures of it and share these memories on social media
• How do you like archives to be remembered? As dusty, dark and boring places or as places full of life, exiting stories, great documents and for everyone available? Make a slogan and tweet it
• Do a memorable flashmob
• Make online something fun with old diarys, letters, friendsbooks, drawings, photographs, postcards, posters, etc. – just gif it up!

#archivesmemory: memories in archives. Let’s celebrate with #archivesmemory the ICA theme ‘Archives, Governance, Memory and Heritage’ and make a memorable #IAD18 of June 9!

Your contribution, your choice

We just gave some exemples how to join #archivesmemory on June 9 on Twitter. Your contribution could naturally also be something completely different: documents of huge importance and great archival beauty that every archivist and every user and lover of archives must have seen.
It is your choice, and we look forward to your contribution!
Join International Archives Day on Twitter!

We hope lots of archives, archivists and all people who love archives will join.
Let us show together, using the hashtag #archivesmemory, how memories in archives can contribute to Governance and Heritage and how archives play a vital part in documenting the memory of the community, of the world, of the people who live on our planet.

Sharing #archivesmemory gives us the oportunity to meat people via internet with the same love for archives, objects, a special year or for music or the joy of being an archivist or being a researcher.

Other platforms

Twitter is the main platform for the event, but you can do #archivesmemory on most other platforms too. Show of your diaries on Instagram, take the opportunity to use the Facebook Live video, featuring memorable sounds of music, TV programs or films, write a blogpost… but be sure to tweet about it on June 9!

Organization

This Twitter event #archivesmemory on #IAD18 is organized by Ask Archivists and Follow An Archive, managed by Anneke van Waarden-Koets (The Netherlands) and Charlotte S.H. Jensen (Denmark).

We wish you a great International Archives Day on June 9 and we are looking forward to your #archivesmemory!

Anneke and Charlotte

See also:

Blog Ask Archivists

#archivestourism on International Archives Day 2017

Belgian advertisment for a day trip to the isle of Walcheren, Province Zeeland in The Netherlands, 1892. Zeeland Archives in Middelburg | Zeeuws Archief, Zeeuws Genootschap, Zelandia Illustrata III, no. 1071.

Twitter event on #IAD17 : #archivestourism

International Archives Day 2017 #IAD17 is coming up! Like every year Ask Archivists and Follow An Archive organize a celebration event on Twitter on June 9.

With the celebration event we join the June 9 theme ‘Archives, Citizenship and Interculturalism’ of the International Council on Archives (ICA).
The theme of the annual Twitter event will be: #archivestourism. It’s about tourism in archives.

Archives and tourism

Tourism makes a great match with the ICA theme ‘Archives, Citizenship and Interculturalism’!
Tourism also perfectly matches the 2017 theme of the United Nations: ‘International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development’, #IY2017.

Tourism in archives

Lot of archives keep documents about tourism in their collections. Think of brochures, postcards, photographs taken on holidays in family archives and think of archives of tourist shops or organisations. They all can be a contribution to the Twitter event #archivestourism. The format is quite open, do an infographic, gif, animation, blogpost, podcast, flashmob, picture album - just make sure to tweet it, using the hashtag.

Archives are full of tourism

So, fellow archivists, let's make a tourist tour in our depots and show our most beautiful, special, valuable, extraordinary tourism documents in our archives on June 9, International Archives Day, and contribute to Archives, Citizenship and Interculturalism!

How can we show tourism in our archives?

•     Brochures of countries, cities, villages, tourist attractions, tourists events, etc.

•     Postcards of countries, cities, villages, etc. with greetings to loved ones at home

•     Photographs taken on a holiday or during a touristic event

•     Books about tourism

•     Sound, video, film, advertising countries, cities, villages, tourist attractions, tourist events, etc.

•     Diaries written during a holiday or a touristic event

•     Portraits of people as tourists or employees of tourist shops

•     Archives of tourist shops and tourism organisations

Be a tourist yourself and/or with others

•     Make a tourist tour in your depots, alone, with colleagues, with visitors

•     Invite children/adults to make a tourist drawing or picture of their visit to your archive

•     Make an exhibition about tourism in your city in your archives building or in the city, together with a tourist shop or school

•     Organize a tourist event, make pictures of it and put it on social media

•     Imagine how archives would be "sold" as tourist destinations and tweet the slogan

•     Do a touristical flashmob

•     Make something online and fun with old posters etc. - just gif it up!

#archivestourism: tourism in archives. Let's celebrate with #archivestourism the ICA theme ‘Archives, Citizenship and Interculturalism’ and make a touristical #IAD17 of June 9!

Your contribution, your choice

We just gave some exemples how to join #archivestourism on June 9 on Twitter. Your contribution could naturally also be something completely different: documents of huge importance and great archival beauty that every tourist (and your own citizens!) must have seen.
It is your choice, and we look forward to your contribution.

Join International Archives Day on Twitter!

We hope lots of archives, archivists and all people who love archives will join.
Let us show together, using the hashtag #archivestourism, how tourism in archives can contribute to Citizenship and Interculturalism and how archives play a vital part in documenting the history of tourism.

Other platforms

Twitter is the main platform for the event, but you can do #archivestourism on most other platforms too. Show of your postcards on Instagram, take the opportunity to use the Facebook Live video featuring touristic sounds, write a blogpost… but be sure to to tweet about it 🙂

#IAD17 and #archivestourism

If you wish to join, make a comment on the weblog of AskArchivists stating your Twitter handle as “reply” to this post. And on June 9th post your content to relevant platforms – blogs, Flickr, Instagram, your website, etc. – and tweet about it using the combination of two tags: #IAD17 #archivestourism.

Organization

This Twitter event #IAD17 #archivestourism is organized by Ask Archivists and Follow An Archive, managed by Anneke van Waarden-Koets (The Netherlands) and Charlotte S.H. Jensen (Denmark).

We wish you a great International Archives Day on June 9 and we are looking forward to your #archivestourism!

Anneke and Charlotte

See also:

Blog Ask Archivists

Texts about #IAD17 and #archivestourism in several languages

Who would like to translate this blogpost into his/her own language?
Feel free to use the blogtext above and use your own pictures to give exemples.
Please let us know on Twitter when you have written a blogpost in your own language about the Twitter event #archivestourism on June 9 #IAD17, so we can make a link to your blogpost. Together we can spread the word worldwide to let as many people as possible know about #IAD17 #archivestourism on Twitter. Thanks a lot!

Text in French Thanks to Team AEDA Maud Jouve
Text in Dutch Thanks to Archief 2.0 Anneke van Waarden-Koets 

Pamphlets from the Danish Tourist Board in Danish National Archives. Lots of vikings and nostalgia going on.

#ArchivesRock on International Archives Day 2016

Parade of ‘Rederijkers’ making music in Middelburg (province Zeeland, The Netherlands). Engraving by Daniël Veelwaard and Jan Arends, ca 1784/1785. Zeeuws Archief/Zeeland Archives, Zeeuws Genootschap, Zelandia Illustrata, dl III, nr 988.

Let's celebrate June 9

International Archives Day 2016 #IAD16 is coming up! Like every year Ask Archivists and Follow An Archive organize a celebration event on Twitter.
With the celebration event we join the June 9 theme ‘Archives, Harmony and Friendship‘ of the International Council on Archives (ICA).
The theme of the annual Twitter event will be #archivesrock. It’s about music in archives.

Archives rock

Music makes a perfect match with the ICA theme ‘Archives, Harmony and Friendship’!
Remember the song ‘Ebony and Ivory’, a 1982 number-one single by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder?
“Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony | Side by side on my piano…”.
It contains music and lyrics worth to keep in an archive, performed by two friends singing and playing together in perfect harmony!
So let archives rock on June 9, International Archives Day, and contribute to Friendship and Harmony!

How can you let archives rock?

• Music performances and/or instruments on photographs, engravings, paintings, etc.
• Music scores and/or sheet music
• Books about music
• Soundtracks, video, film, etc.
• List of archives and collections about music
• Portraits of composers and musicians
• Records, which that tell about composers, musicians and “musical” institutions

 

The sound of archives

• Make any kind of noise in an archive depot
• Rustle with paper
• Close the heavy door of the archive depot
• Turn the wheels of the shelves
• Put an archival document in/out an archives box
• Type an inventory list
• Record the silence of the reading room

 

Be a musician yourself and/or with others

• Sing and/or play music in harmony with your colleagues and/or visitors
• Invite children/adults to sing with you in the archive
• Organize a musical event, tape it and put it on Twitter
• ….or do a flashmob?

Music in archives, sounds in archives, it’s all possible to make #Archivesrock on June 9!

 

Your contribution, your choice

And finally – your contribution could naturally also be musical documents of huge importance and great archival beauty.
It is your choice, and we look forward to your contribution.

 

Join International Archives Day on Twitter!

We hope lots of archives, archivists and all people who love archives will join.
Let us show together how music can make the world a harmonious place to live together in friendship and how archives play a vital part in documenting the history of music.

 

Other platforms

Twitter is the main platform for the event, but you can do #archivesrock on most other platforms too. Show of your sheetmusic on Instagram, take the opportunity to test the new Facebook Live video featuring archival sound, write a blogpost… but be sure to to tweet about it ;-)

 

Organization

This Twitter event #IAD16 #archivesrock is organized by Follow An Archive and Ask Archivists, managed by Anneke van Waarden-Koets (The Netherlands) and Charlotte Jensen (Denmark).
The idea for the theme ‘the sound of archives’ came from the German archivist Thomas Wolf. We added music, mixed it with the sound of archives, and here it is, especially for all our archives friends: a harmonious theme to celebrate International Archives Day: #archivesrock!

Entry of baptism for the world-famous Danish composer Niels Wilhelm Gade, 1817. He was co-founder of the Royal Danish Academy of Music, where he became the first Director General. In 1854 he wrote a “weddingwaltz” for a play and didn´t think much of it. But even today, it is used at almost every Danish wedding and silver/gold wedding aniversary.

Texts about #archivesrock on #IAD16 in several languages

Archivists from several countries in the world wrote blogposts about the Twitter event #archivesrock on #IAD16 in their own languages. Thank you very much for your great translation work, colleagues! Much appreciated!

Blogpost in German
Blogpost in Dutch
Blogpost in Danish
Blogpost in French
Blogpost in Polish

Let’s celebrate democracy and rights on June 9th. 2015

Cartoon on the friction between tw political parties in Dutch elections (Scale based on the balance in Middelburg, province of Zeeland. Lithography by Joh. Braakensiek, 1897
Source: Zeeuws Archief-Zeeland Archives, Zeeuws Genootschap, Zelandia Illustrata III, no. 362

Celebrating International Archives Day 2015
June 9th. and International Archives Day is almost here again. There are so many topics to choose from! But we propose, that this years activities concentrate on democracy in many ways.

Topic: democracy
The National Archives of the United Kingdom has come up with this topic, suggesting that we make June 9th. a "Twitter day where archives share stories and records within their collection showcasing democracy and rights in different ways".

It is a subject, that most archives can relate to and tell stories about. No matter if you are a large, national archive, a municipal institution or a community archive, we all have records and other material, that can be used to tell the story of democratic development, and people who have stood up for their rights.

Ideas about what to share, could be records that

• have established fundamental rights in your country 
• tell the story of individuals, who played a part in establishing democratic conditions 
• relate to rights of specific groups ( indigenous, ethnic, LGBT, women, children...) 
• show the history of the right to form trade unions and political or religious communities 
• picture election and election days, both national and local
• sound archives with important speaches, interviews etc. 

Your contribution, your choice
And finally your contribution could naturally also be constitutional documents of huge importance and great archival beauty. It is your choice, and we look forward to your contribution.

#IAD15 #democracy : register on blog Ask Archivists
If you wish to join, make a comment on the same blogpost on the weblog of Ask Archivists. And on June 9th. post your content to relevant platforms - blogs, flickr, instagram, your website, etc. - and tweet about it using the combination of two tags: #IAD15 #democracy.

Join International Archives Day on Twitter!
We hope a lot of archives will join, and help show the world, how archives play a vital part in documenting the history of democracy.

This Twitter event #IAD15 #democracy is organized by Ask Archivists and Follow An Archive.

Detail from the first page on the first democratic constitution in the kingdom of Denmark. The original is kept at The National Achives of Denmark. (Original photo: Karsten Bundgaard, Det Kongelige Bibliotek – original is found here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/statensarkiver/sets/72157626683287892

Results #WW1archives June 10 2014

 

Great day June 10

What a great day we had on June 10, 2014, celebrating International Archives Day with the Twitter event #WW1archives! Lots of archives, liraries, museums, other heritage organisations and tweeps participated, tweeting about the First World War in their archives or private collections.

#WW1archives Day started in New Zealand and Australia with at least seven organisations and tweeps tweeting about the Great War in their archives and collections. Other participating countries followed, most of them in Europe (we counted 14 twittering organisations in The Netherlands, but the UK and France were leading on tweets), but also in South-Africa and the Middle-East. And the last countries that joined #WW1archives were the America's and Canada, who also did a great job.

Almost 1,000 users did more than 2,000 tweets and retweets with a potential reach of almost 1,600,000 and over 5,300,000 impressions.

We enjoyed the documents, pictures, objects and all kinds of resources. It's amazing to see what a treasures we keep in our archives and collections! And we saw a lot of data bases to search for soldiers and refugees. Good work!

We also saw private persons who made wonderful projects or stories of their search for ancestors who were soldier of refugee in the Great War, and persons who shared their privat collections of, for instance, magazines or postcards. Thanks for your special contributions!

Outcome

We made some statistic reviews on the use of the hashtag #WW1archives using the tool Keyhole:
1. 2014-06-11 Social Monitor #ww1archives - Keyhole - overview
2. 2014-06-11 Social Monitor #ww1archives - Keyhole -media  

Archiving tweets

We archived tweets in three Storify's:
1. Documentes about the Great War 1914-1918
2. Pictures of the Great War 1914-1918
3. Online resources about the Great War 1914-1918  

Next event

We hope you enjoyed participating #WW1archives! The idea to tweet about the First World War in archives and collections came from Thomas Wolf from SIWI-archives in Germany. Do you have an idea for a next international Twitter event on @FollowAnArchive and @AskArchivists? Please let us know. Thanks to you all for making #WW1archives Day such a great archives event, to show all the resources we keep for people to investigate and make the discovery of their live!

Charlotte and Anneke

Join #WW1archives on June 10, 2014

Twitter event on June 10, 2014
In 2014 International Archives Day (June 9) falls on Whit Monday or Pentecost Monday. Most archives are closed that day. So we decided to organize the annual Twitter event on Tuesday, June 10.

World War I – 1914-2014
The German archivist Thomas Wolf from SIWI-archives came up with a good idea: let’s pay attention to the beginning of the First World War or The Great War, that began 100 years ago in 1914.

The Great War in archives
We ask all archives and other heritage organizations to search their collections for documents related to the First World War 1914-1918. Even countries that were neutral during the Great War, can perhaps find some records about, for instance, aid to refugees, or military or financial support to soldiers, families, countries in need.

Subjects to look for and tweet about
Archival documents, records, newspapers, pictures, drawings, postcards, paintings, etc. about:
- Soldiers
- Families and loved ones of soldiers
- Battlefields
- Refugees
- Aid / Support
- Governments
- Weapons
- Mobilisation
- Diseases
- War cemeteries
- History before, during, after 1914-1918, all related to the First World War

#WW1archives
Join @AskArchivists and @FollowAnArchive on #WW1archives Day on Twitter, June 10, 2014.
In due time you will find more information on the two blogs http://askarchivists.wordpress.com/ and http://followanarchive.blogspot.nl/ .

Pictures:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thiepval_Ridge
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/first-world-war-diaries-go-online-to-mark-centenary