GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE ICA SECTION ON ARCHIVAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING

12 Members and 5 non-members present.

The agenda was adopted by the Assembly.

2. Approval of the Minutes of the 1992 General Assembly

The minutes of the 1992 General Assembly were approved by the General Assembly without discussion.

3. Report of the President

The president gave a verbal explanation of his presidential report on the planperiod 19921996: the developments in membership, the meetings of the Steering Committee, the colloquia and the seminar held, the publications realized and foreseen, and the othe r activities of the Section. The vice-president commented briefly on the activities in the preparation, composition and publication of the Bibliography for Teachers, presented in Beijing. The president concluded that almost all the projects in the plan-pe riod 1992-1996 had been realized and that the remaining ones were under way of realization. The Assembly approved the report.

4/5. Report of the Secretary and Financial Report

Combining the secretarial and financial reports the secretary made clear that the balance sheet only covers the years 1993-1995, 1993 being the first whole year after the creation of the section and 1995 the last whole year before presentation of the repo rt. She made clear, that the teaching aids have been produced through advanced money by the ICA and the Society of the Friends of the French National Archives, and that the selling of the kits until now has been sufficient to cover the costs, and even per mits the free distribution to some institutions. The secretary also remarked, that production and distribution of the Directory have taken place with the financial support of, among others, the Direction des Archives de France and the Bundesarchiv. Lastly , the secretary noted that the balance in august 1996 should be about + 6000 US$, without the ordinary resources to be paid by the I CA-treasurer.

After some discussion, in which M. Delmas urged the future Steering Committee to look for an expansion of the extraordianry resources - seen the ambitious plans for the next years the Assembly approved the reports.

6. Presentation of the Medium Term Plan 1996-2000

The vice-president presented the plan for the next medium term. He argued that the symposia - in the preceding plan-period used for the strengthening of the foundation of the Section - should function in the coming plan-period as a means of communication on the progress of the specific projects. Projects will be gathered under four general headings: Archival education, archival research and literature on archival science, Curriculum development and model curricula, Organisation of initial and continuing e ducation and Teaching aids and teaching methods. He proposed the 2000 Symposium on "Archival education and training in the world: the state of the art" to be seen as the Section's superproject.

Beside these activities, the vice-president pointed to the importance of the role of the Section in assisting other ICA-bodies and members in projects involving education and/or training, and argued for the intensifying of communication among SAE-members, especially through the Internet.

The suggestions put forward in a memorandum by Mrs. S. Schenkolewski will be fitted into the plan where possible.

Thereupon, the Assembly approved the proposed Medium Term Plan.

7. Elections

As candidates for the Steering Committee 1996-2000 ten candidate were presented by the present Steering Committee, four other candidates were received.

The president asked the General Assembly to give votes on the candidates for the Steering Committee 1996-2000. The results of the election of the members were as follows:

1. Theo THOMASSEN (Netherlands)
2.David B. GRACY II (USA)
3.Margaret CROCKETT (Open Society Archives Budapest)
4.Marie-Francoise LIMON (France)
5.Ann PEDERSON (Australia)
6. Luis HERNANDEZ OLIVERA (Spain)
7.Masahito ANDO (Japan)
8.FENG Huiling (China)
9.Irena MAMCZAK-GADKOWSKA (Poland)
10. Torbjorn KJOLSTAD (Sweden)
11. Paola CARUCCI (Italy)
12. Evgenii STAROSTINE (Russia)
13. Silvia SCHENKOLEWSKI-KROLL (Israel)
14. Angelika MENNE-HARITZ, (Germany)

The General Assembly approved the suggestion of the president to try to have all candida tes participate in the activities of the section. ICA's Executive Committee will be requested to allow the number of members to be extended beyond the regular amount of ten. All candidates will be asked to participate in the work of the Steering Committee.

Finally, Mr. Theo Thomassen was unanimously chosen to become the next president of the Section.

8. Varia

No other items to be discussed were brought to the attention of the Assembly.

9. Closure of the General Assembly

The outgoing president mentioned his gratitude towards the members of the Steering Committee 1992-1996, without whom his task would not have been as pleasant as he will remember it.

The incoming president thereafter mentioned with gratitude the important contributions by the outgoing president to the work of the Section.