LVR archive advice and training center
The LVR archive advice and training center ( LVR-AFZ ) is based in Pulheim near Cologne in the buildings of the former Benedictine abbey of Brauweiler . It was founded in 1929 as the Rhineland archives advice center and is part of the Rhineland Regional Council .
The archive advisory center has the task of advising the non-governmental archives in the district on archiving issues. The spectrum of institutions to be supervised includes the archives of the Rhenish municipalities, the nobility, the economy, the churches as well as archives of associations, associations and foundations. As part of archive maintenance, the archive advisory center is responsible, among other things, for the depot of the United Aristocratic Archives in Rhineland eV
The LVR archive advisory center also issues archival publications and annually organizes the Rheinische Archivtag as a forum for the exchange of experiences among archivists.
literature
- Horst Schmitz: 50 years of the Rhineland Archives Advice Center 1929-1979 . Cologne 1979 (archive books of the LV, No. 13).
- Peter Weber u. Wolfgang Schaffer: 80 years of archive consulting in the Rhineland . Habelt-Verlag, Bonn 2009 (LVR archive booklets, no. 38).