An archive box goes on a journey – canton Glarus
National Archives • On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Association of Swiss Archivists, an archive box is traveling through all the cantons and Liechtenstein. The respective cantonal archives fill the box with small, regionally typical additions at each stop. This week she stopped in Glarus.
With the action «Archive on tour» he celebrates Association of Swiss Archivists VSA celebrates its 100th anniversary. An archive box is passed on from canton to canton, from archive to archive, and filled at each stop with another gift related to the canton in question. On June 20, 2022, the Bündner state archivist Reto Weiss sent the well-travelled box to the Glarner state archivist Fritz Rigendinger.
On June 24, 2022, several representatives of Glarner archives inspected the contents of the box and made their own contribution. The Glarner Economic Archive, represented by its founders Sibyll Kindlimann and Madlaina Brugger, chooses a small textile printing model, which symbolizes the Glarner economic miracle, textile printing. The State Archives, represented by Fritz Rigendinger, Lara Caetano and Martin Jenny, entered the facsimile of an entry in the Landsbuch from 1463 in addition to a photograph of the Landsgemeinde at the beginning of the last century: A commitment to a clear declaration of origin in the production of Ziger – a requirement even then Current topic. Carmen Tellenbach, community archivist, included a sticker postcard from the 1980s: “I love Engi” – but the card was only a prototype and was never printed.
The archive box is now traveling on to Liechtenstein.
The Association of Swiss Archivists (VSA)
Of the USA was founded in 1922. The anniversary activities aim to draw attention to the archives’ important role in the rule of law and democracy, as memories of culture and history, and as hubs in the information society. The professional association deals intensively with training issues and, among other things, defines important evaluation guidelines for the archive. A lot of space is also given to questions about the future, because everything that is stored digitally on a stick today could no longer be readable tomorrow – in contrast to a text on parchment.