25th Conference of International Archival Day in Trieste, Italy, organized by International Institute for Archival Science

On 19-20 October 2015 the 25th Conference of International Archival Day took place in Trieste, Italy, organized by the International Institute for Archival Science of Trieste and Maribor (IIAS).

The event attracted nearly a hundred participants from Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Italy, Canada, Macedonia, Oman, Russia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, France, Croatia, Montenegro, Czechia, Switzerland and Estonia.

In view of the 30th anniversary of IIAS and 25th anniversary of ATLANTI official magazine, Zdenka Semlic Rajh (Slovenia) offered a short report on the history of IIAS and its main achievements.

The working programme of the conference was traditionally opened by Charles Kecskemeti, former Secretary General of ICA, honoured member of IIAS Assembly. He delivered a review of the papers presented at the 2014 conference of IISA and published in Atlanti 2014.

The conference addressed the two topics: “Management, Appraisal and Long Term Preservation of E-records: Archival Response to the Challenge of Long Term Preservation” and “Archival Buildings in Terms of Responding to the Emergencies”.

The first topic included 21 reports. Andrey Rybakov, Director of the Belarusian Research Institute of Records Management and Archival Science (BelNIIDAD) delivered a report “Management, Appraisal and Preservation of Electronic Records: the Belarusian Experience”.