Leipzig University awards new prize for archivists and historians












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            * Leipzig University awards new prize for archivists and historians
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            While the thought of losing data stored on a computer or documents terrifies all academic 

            it represents a true nightmare for university archivists. The two-day Archives in Union: N
            Cooperation (Archive im Verbund: Netzwerke und Kooperationen [ URL "http://www.archiv.uni-
            content/uploads/2013/01/FJT_Prag_2013.pdf"] ) international conference, taking place from 

            the grounds of Charles University, is attempting to find a solution for the improvement of
            (not only) crisis situations.
            The spring meeting of the working-group for the archives of German universities and scient

            was begun on 13 March on the premises of the Patriots’ Hall by CU Rector Professor Václav 
            with the Rector of Leipzig University, Professor Beate Schücking, and the Chairwoman of th

            Archivists’ Society, docent Marie Ryantová. Before the actual start of the conference, the
            time to examine one of the most precious documents contained in the archive of Charles Uni
            period copy of the Decree of Kutná Hora. It was this decree, issued by King Wenceslas II i

            led to the departure of a number of scholars from out alma mater to Leipzig, where they fo
            University.
            In his opening speech, CU Rector Professor Václav Hampl [ URL "http://iforum.cuni.cz/IFORU

            highlighted the contribution made by, primarily, the current generation of Czech and Germa
            archivists and historians in the re-evaluation and cultivation of the image of the past of
            institutions. This is in accordance with the latest trends in archiving theory and practic

            historiography, and also the needs of the society in which these universities function. In
            to his speech the Rector touched on the important role played in academic and cultural lif
            university insignia and called upon the present archivists to consider the possibility of 

            exhibition or preparing a publication on the traditional symbols of academic autonomy in C
            In her speech the Rector of Leipzig University, Beate Schücking [ URL "http://iforum.cuni.
            IFORUM-14234.html"] , emphasised that while archives were in previous times the arsenals o

            prejudices, shared history ought not to be a dividing barrier for the nations of Central E
            view, archivists and historians ought to focus on emphasising shared features. In this con
            Schücking announced in public for the first time that, thanks to a generous private donati

            University shall, from next year, award the international Ludwig Weickmann Prize for work 
            universities and the sciences.
            The working meeting of archivists at the Carolinum in Prague shall also address cooperatio

            forging of ties between archives at home and abroad. The agenda also included representati
            and Austrian archives and other information storage institutions, giving the group the opp
            discuss existing projects based on mutual cooperation, and consider the form that might be

            projects.