National Archives of the Faroe Islands
The National Archives of the Faroe Islands (Føroya Landsskjalasavn) is the national archives of the Faroe Islands and has been in the island's capital Tórshavn since it was founded in 1932 .
Initially a purely administrative archive, it now has the largest collection of documents in the Faroese language and takes on educational and research tasks in this regard.
In 1932 the Danish state government complied with the request of the Faroe Islands local politicians and administrative officials not to transfer the files to the Danish mother country. The only exceptions to this are government and military files. Since 1972 the archive has moved into new rooms in the building of the Natural History Museum and has a user room. In the 1980s the National Archives got its own building, VU Hammershaimbsgøta 24, it was built near the old location VU Hammershaimbsgøta 11 and the university . At that time, the city was also home to the Faroe Islands State Library , which supplemented the archive with its collections.
In 2011, the National Archives were merged with the State Library and the Museum to save administrative costs. The National Archives also take on the archiving tasks of the local administrations, only the city of Klaksvík already has its own city archive.
The National Archives has a director and eight employees who look after five kilometers of archive material at two locations. Due to the country's topography ( archipelago ), the digitization of the holdings is a basic requirement to facilitate archive work. The archive website also provides online research services for guest users; this also applies to the electronic database of the genealogical data of the island's population, which was started in 2007 and has been processed almost entirely for the past 200 years.
The training of administrative staff and the support of research projects are also part of the tasks of the archive staff.
literature
- Helge Kleifeld: The archives of the West Nordic Council using the example of Iceland and the Faroe Islands. Archive Theory and Practice . In: Archivist . tape 65 , no. 2 , May 2012, ISSN 0003-9500 , p. 163–166 ( nrw.de [PDF; 3.9 MB ]).
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Coordinates: 62 ° 0 ′ 29.2 " N , 6 ° 46 ′ 44.9" W.