De la o soluţie de urgenţă la o întemeiere – Arhiva centrală a Bisericii evanghelice C.A. din România, Sibiu
From stopgap to start-up – the Central archive of the Evangelical Church A.C. in Romania, Sibiu

Summary/Abstract: brigade” of free-lance archivists to the today’s institution, comparable to a regionalbranch of the Romanian National archives. The backgrounds of the church administrationand its history, strongly interweaved with ethnic affairs, are briefly laid out.Secondly, the author describes the current structure of the archive, in general thenature of fonds, records and collections in a repository of ca. 2.7 km shelving spacewithin a former orphanage. The article comments on the general storage situation and keyaspects of archival management, such as building features, risk management, andacclimatisation.Thirdly, the article stresses particularly all relevant procedures and currentresults of registration of archival documents between 2001-2010, according toprovenance, collection type, and texture of the data. The author evaluates especiallyaspects of strict registration rules, the performance of old and recently introducedsoftware (Midosa XML), and adds conservational remarks. He argues that the coreproblems of today’s archival management in Sibiu are less about money than sensibilityfor conservation issues and awareness for well-structured indexation-rules like ISAD (G)and ISAAR to successfully attract future Online-users.Summing up the analysis, the article specifies tasks to respond to thosechallenges and sketches future perspectives of the Sibiu church archive.

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