PTT archive
| PTT archive
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 Reading room |
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| Archive type | Economic archive |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 55 '26.7 " N , 7 ° 24' 49.6" O |
| place | Koeniz |
| Visitor address | Sägestrasse 77, 3098 Köniz |
| scope | approx. 7.5 km |
| Age of the archive material | mainly 1849-1997 |
| ISIL | CH-000525-4 |
| carrier | Swiss Foundation for the History of Post and Telecommunications |
| Website | www.mfk.ch/pttarchiv |
The PTT archive (formerly the PTT Historical Archive and Library ) is the corporate archive of the former Swiss postal, telephone and telegraph companies (PTT) . In 1997 the PTT were divided into the companies Die Schweizerische Post (today: Die Schweizerische Post AG ) and Swisscom AG . On behalf of these two joint-stock companies, the specially created Swiss Foundation for the History of Post and Telecommunications has been running the PTT archive since 1998. According to the Swiss archive lawSwiss Post AG and Swisscom AG, as legal successors of the PTT companies, are obliged to preserve their archives and make them publicly accessible. The PTT archive is located in Köniz near Bern and is an A object (objects of national importance) in the Swiss inventory of cultural assets.
History and mission
On April 30, 1893, the General Post Office in Bern issued an "Instruction on the organization of the archive, the establishment and management of the Central Library and the maintenance of the registry of the expedition office of the Upper Post Office" . It is the earliest known source that deals with the creation of an archive and library for the then independent General Postal Directorate. Over a hundred years this first archive and the library developed into a central information point of the PTT, called "Library - Information - Documentation" (BID). At times the BID employed almost 30 people.
In its present form and with the current order, the PTT archive has only existed since the liberalization of the companies. On December 31, 1997, Swiss Post and Swisscom AG donated the former PTT corporate archive and the holdings of the former PTT library to the specially established Swiss Foundation for the History of Post and Telecommunications (Foundation). The two founders agreed that the two components should be housed as a unit in the same place. From then on, the archive and library formed the "PTT Historical Archive and Library" at Viktoriastrasse 21 in Bern. In 2013 the archive moved to today's premises at Sägestrasse 77 in Köniz near Bern.
The holdings of the PTT archive fall under the Federal Archiving Act (BGA) and are the property of the federal government. The archive holdings are therefore subject to binding protection periods : 30 years for factual files and 50 years for personal files. Requests to inspect the archived material falling under the protection period can be submitted to the PTT archive.
In accordance with the agreement between the Federal Archives and the Swiss Foundation for the History of Post and Telecommunications from 1998, the Foundation manages the company archive of the former PTT, ensures that it is appropriately indexed and makes it available to the public within the framework of the statutory provisions for federal files Available. The documents in the PTT archive may therefore neither be sold nor segregated without the express consent of the Federal Archives.
The PTT Historical Archive and Library has been known as the PTT Archive for short since 2018 .
Archives holdings
The main holdings of the PTT archive are the PTT documents falling under the Federal Act on Archiving (BGA) from the years 1848 to 1997. The holdings include files from all over Switzerland from Geneva to St. Gallen and are therefore trilingual (German, French, Italian). Holdings of forerunners of the Swiss Post are also in the archive.
The holdings include documents on the organization of the general post office, the district post offices and the individual post offices, documents on the history of various post bus lines, traffic statistics, documents on the expansion of the telephone and telegraph network in Switzerland, the introduction of mobile phones, internet and fax the experiments of the "Research and Development" department and, last but not least, files on human resources.
Furthermore, numerous documentation folders created by the former BID on specific technical and organizational topics could be taken over.
The archive inventory also includes several hundred linear meters of gray literature , from regulations and forms to telephone books. The PTT archive also contains the only complete collection of Swiss telephone books, going back to the first Swiss telephone book from 1880. A special scientific library with a focus on post and telecommunications is also part of the PTT archive. This special library has historically grown from the libraries of the General Directorate and the various district post and district telephone directorates and comprises around 35,000 publications. Last but not least, publications on the UPU ( Universal Postal Union ) and ITU ( International Telecommunication Union ) can be found in the library . Both international organizations were founded in Bern.
Video sources are also available with the eyewitness interviews of the Oral History Project.
PTT archive services
First and foremost, the PTT archive ensures public access to the archive holdings and makes them accessible in an archive database that is accessible online. The documents can be studied in the archive's reading room.
Every year visitors are guided through the magazine. On this occasion, the visitors get an insight into the work at the post office and in the telegraph or telephone departments on the basis of selected archive materials from the PTT.
The PTT archive takes on an important mediation task with the ongoing expansion of its oral history project, which also establishes a relatively direct reference to today's successor groups by questioning former employees of the PTT. Depending on the resources, up to 14 people have been surveyed each year since 2014.
The PTT archive regularly participates in university courses and organizes Wikipedia workshops on various historical aspects of the PTT.
The PTT archive has held cross-generational workshops for postal apprentices (PostFinance, PostBus, Post) several times. The apprentices use archive sources to prepare for a conversation with former PTT employees about their past and present day-to-day work.
See also
Web links
- Official website of the PTT archive
- Archive database
- We, the PTT. Oral History Website of the PTT Archives
Individual evidence
- ^ Foundation - Museum for Communication. Retrieved June 27, 2019 .
- ^ KGS inventory. Retrieved June 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Bonjour, Ernest: The History of the Swiss Post 1849-1949 . tape 2 . Bern 1949, p. 225 ff .
- ↑ Zumstein, Karl: From the beginnings of the library and documentation, in: PTT-Zeitschrift 25 (1974), p. 45 ff.
- ↑ SR 152.1 Federal Act of June 26, 1998 on Archiving (Archiving Act, BGA). Retrieved June 27, 2019 .
- ↑ About us - PTT archive. Retrieved June 27, 2019 .
- ↑ PTT archive - PTT archive. Retrieved June 27, 2019 .
- ↑ scopeArchiv - information on the search. Retrieved June 27, 2019 .
- ↑ We, the PTT. Nous, les PTT. Retrieved June 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Annual reports - PTT archive. Retrieved June 27, 2019 .
- ↑ We, the PTT. Nous, les PTT. Retrieved June 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Workshops - PTT archive. Retrieved June 27, 2019 .