Summary VI at Salon Jewish Studies (http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-vi_13.html)



UPDATE Duration of the rescue process, the new building for the Cologne Historical Archive and COPYRIGHTS (KSTa March 15th 2009 via Archivalia)
Georg Quander (Kulturdezernent [Department for Culture]) makes an appraisal of the situation that the construction of a new Cologne Historical Archive will take at least five years. First of all, there has to be a location for constructing a building. “When the building is finished there must be constant heating for two years to dry the wall that the material will not get clammy or wet.” He amounts five years for this procedure. […]
The director of the Cologne Historical Archive, Bettina Schmidt-Czaia, points out that the rescue of material is still dangerous because the rubble could slide at any time. The rescue process will take at least another six months. The tentative wooden roof covering the rubble is a good shelter though. Wall on the side to shelter from sloping rain will be build soon. [...] Schmidt-Czaia addresses another problem that arises now: „Many scientists, that received copies of our material over the last years, are uploading it now on the internet to give access to the resources after the collapse” she explains. That breaks copyright-positions. “It would be better, if these people would give us the copies” addresses the director the scientists. (epd)
The statement of Bettina Schmidt-Czaia has already led to a controversy on Archivalia.

News on the Cologne Historical Archive's rescue process
Archivists and conservators start drying, cleaning and boxing the archival material from the rubble at the newly established Erstversorgungszentrum (EVZ) In Cologne. The aim is to identify and dry wet archival material as fast as possible to preclud must. Documents which are strongly affected will be dispatched to the Centre for freeze-drying at the Archivamt LWL (Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe) in Munster. (Archiv-in-Truemmern via Archivalia)
Elmar Ries on March 12th 2009 in Westfaelische Nachrichten: “It seems derogatory to the valuable documents, how they arrived in Muenster. There are stored in two metal boxes in the trailer of a car. The valuable books and very old documents are freezing cold and quickly wrapped into Cellophane. Archivists would have torn their hair under ordinary circumstances. The first delivery amounts 8.5 l.t. During the last days, the whole material have been frozen in the Humana-Milk-Union (Hamana-Milchunion) in Everswinkel – 'minus 30 degrees Celsius, so that the documents, wet from rain and groundwater do not smite from mildews' Dr. Marcus Stumpf the head of the Archivamt says." (via Archivalia)

After covering the archive's rubble with blankets, now the work on the canopy is almost finished. (Archiv-in-Truemmern via Archivalia)

A series of pictures on the conditions of archival material reaching the EVZ (Archiv-in-Truemmern)

Summary VI at Salon Jewish Studies (http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-vi_13.html)

(UPDATE: Unfortunately, the picture above marks the wrong church of which the steel tipped to one side in 2004. Please follow this link [google maps] to see the correct location of St. Johann Baptist church in Severinstr. 1)

Notes on the rescue process from the new blog Archiv-in-Truemmern.de (AiT), which was launched on 10th of March 2009
Students of the Academy of Art Bern (Department for conservation and restauration), supervised by Sebastian Dobrusskin, support the rescue team at the scene. (AiT March 12th 2009 via Archivalia)
On March 12th 2009, the following material was recovered: 1) medieval handwritings 2) council records 3) files of the Adenauer inventory (902) 4) deeply damaged material from the personal papers collection of the architect Schneider-Wessling. (AiT March 12th 2009 via Archivalia)

Figures from the Digital Cologne Historical Archive
Up to now, 378 documents had been uploaded by 222 Users.

Individual experiences during the rescue process at the scene (http://twitter.com/SunshineFan via Archivalia)
S. found many modern (20th century) material: typed, construction plans in good condition but partly wet and crinkled and sometimes just snippets. S. did not find any deeds or similar things but many books of private (bequest-)collections, partly tattered and squashed. Many mikrofiches, diapositives and negatives had been found – mostly destroyed, some got cleaned. 3-D-objects such as medals, badges, gifts to the City of Cologne and others (parts of bequests) had also been found.

Consequences of the Cologne Archive's collapse for research centers, an example (Kuvi - Kultur & Visionen March 13th 2009 via Archivalia)
“The collapse of the Cologne Historical Archive (CHA) also has consequences for the students at Bochumer Ruhr- University. Many students are not able to complete their work because of the loss. Especially, the historians researching and working on Middle Ages are affected very hard. For example, there is a young researcher who has been working for a book on the topic of patrician families in Cologne for the last four years. He is that all the material for his work is submerged. His research is apruptly abandoned. The director of the concerned department at Bochum Ruhr- University wants to help his students and prevent hardship provisions. Until now, he can only wait to see how many documents can be found and restored in the end out of the rubble."

Selected news on the collapse (in English)
Authorities Uncover Second Victim of Cologne Archive Collapse (DW-World.de March 12th 2009)
While announcing the discovery of a second corpse on Thursday, March 12, a Cologne fire department spokesperson could not confirm whether the body found was that of a 24-year-old who reportedly lived in a building near the archive and has been missing since the archive suddenly collapsed on March 3.
The remains, which were found nine meters (29.5 feet) beneath ground level, had not yet been removed from the rubble and it was impossible to tell [on] Thursday evening if they were from a man or woman, the spokesman added."
Cologne collapse: no compensation grouting used for archive (Jessica Rowson, Technical reporter for New Civil Engineer on March 12th 2009)
"Cologne’s City archive building had not been underpinned or compensation grouted despite its proximity to the underground works being carried out for the Cologne North-South light railway, a Cologne transit authority Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe (KVB) spokesman revealed today." (Further reports by Jessica Rowson availabe on NCE)

(Picture above: Location of underground structure published onNew Civil Engineer)

http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5576545/

Thanks Frank!

Summary V at Salon Jewish Studies - Blog (http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-v.html)



UPDATE 1 Notes on the rescue process from a circular by the Society of German Archivists (VDA) (via Archivalia)
The rescue work continues and the tentative roof to shelter the material at the scene is being improved. Documents are permanently discovered, some of them are deeply damaged. Storage room, suitable for the material was found in a Cologne district. The storage room‘s climatic conditions comply with the requirements, so the archival material is now pretreated and sorted there. The clean and dry materials will be brought to other archive storages soon, which kindly offered this possibility. First, the closest archives will be used and later on the others in a wider area. The type of storage possibilities also is important according to the decision where to bring the material.
Since last Sunday, Archiv-AK (Archive task force) advises intensely professional the City Cologne on rescuing and processing the archival material. The Archiv-AK consists of the following persons:

Historisches Archiv Koeln [Historical Archive Cologne]
Dr. Bettina Schmidt-Czaia
Dr. Ulrich Fischer
Nadine Thiel
Claudia Tiggemann-Klein

Kulturdezernat Stadt Koeln [Cultural Department of the City of Cologne]
Michael Lohaus

ARGE Stadtarchive NRW [Worgroup City Archives North Rhine-Westphalia]
Dr. Jens Metzdorf

Land Nordrhein-Westfalen [Federal State of North-Rhine Westphalia]
Dr. Johannes Kistenich

Landschaftsverband Rheinland [Society of Landscape Rhineland]
Dr. Arie Nabrings

Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe [Society of Landscape Westphalia-Lippe]
Dr. Marcus Stumpf

Rheinisch-Westfaelisches Wirtschaftsarchiv [Economy Archives of Rhein-Westfalia]/ VdA- Verband deutscher Archivarinnen und Archivare [Society of German Archivists]:
Dr. Ulrich S. Soénius

Fachhochschule Köln [University for Applied Sciences Cologne]
Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs
Bert Jacek

Continually, news items are published on saved or destroyed inventories or certain documents. Appreciating the public interests, but these items are leading astray. Unfortunately, it has been stated several times, that the “memory of Cologne“ is totally destroyed, as well as the archive will be closed for several years. Both statements are absurd.

UPDATE 2 Ulrich Soénius, director of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Wirtschaftsarchiv [economy archives of Rhine-Westphalia] in an interview with WDR.de on March 11th 2009. (via Archivalia)
There are 300 archivists from Germany and from bordering countries, e.g. Switzerland, who offer support . In addition ca. 60 conservators asked to help. All of them asked to provide assitance during the next weeks. [...] The restauration of the documents costs a lot of money. We talk about a figure in the hundreds of millions Euro, but a precise amount can only be figured out after rescue work is finished. The restauration of an ordinary file may cost between 15,000 and 20,000 Euro.

UPDATE 3 Parchment deeds transfered to the Historische Erzbistumsarchiv Koeln [Archbishopric Historical Archive of the city of Cologne]
Today the Historische Erzbistumsarchiv Koeln took over the recued parchment deeds of the CHA. The number cannot be specified precisly, but Dr. Ulrich Helbach, head of the Archvishophric Archive estimates the number at 30,000. (Archivalia March 12th 2009 17:37)

UPDATE 4 Action force probably found the second missed Khalil G. (KSTa March 12th 2009 19:05 via Archivalia)

Rescue-process of the archival inventory
Unfortunately, there is no official statement on the Cologne archival material from the special meeting of the Cologne city council which was held yesterday. Hence, following information is based on http://twitter.com/DieMedienprofis & http://twitter.com/SamZidat (via Archivalia). 40% of the CHA inventory was rescued undamaged from the rearward building. 20% of the CHA inventory was rescued from the rubble. (?) Up to now, 27,000 m³ rubble were dumped in Porz (a district of Cologne).
Ratsprotokolle [council protocols] as well as a cupboard loaded with wax signets from the 14th and 15th century were recovered.
A huge number of documents had been on the fourth floor. These ones dissapeared in the rubble when the archive collapsed.

Meeting of the Kulturauschuss NRW [Landtag cultural commitee of the state of North-Rhine Westphalia] in the afternoon of March 11th 2009; Chair: Dr. Fritz Behrens (Minister of the interior NRW)
The Kulturstaatssekretär (permanent secretary for Culture) Hans-Heinrich Grosse-Brockhoff briefed the representatives about current action and nationwide support. Also the Landtag administration supports the Cologne Historical Archive (CHA).

1. The department for information services assists the recovery and the restoration of the archival material.
2. The Landtag administration offered to house a CHA staff member's on-the-job training.
3. The department for information services will call for donations and install an information desk on the event Nacht der Museen (night of the museums) in Dusseldorf on May 9th 2009. Visitors will get informed about the dimensions of the Cologne catastrophe and about aspects of the protection of cultural possessions.(press release Landtag NRW via Archivalia)

Selected news on the collapse (in English)
Spiegel Online asked Were Subway Builders Cautious Enough? on March 9th 2009: "Workers at Bilfinger Berger, the German company leading construction of this part of the underground line, have said internally that planners may have forgotten to take account of the particular impact that the weight of the books and the water were having on this problematic soil.It's also possible that city administrators failed to take a recent report on structural damage at the city archive as seriously as it should have."

Hildegard Stausberg asked in the article Assault on Cologne's historical core (Welt Online - English News) on March 6th 2009: "Could it be that the collapse of the Cologne city archives building will mark a change in this mentality [which archives generally associated with something dried out and perhaps a little dull of] in Germany?" (via Archivalia)

Pictures from the Rescue Work at the scene
Salvaging Cologne's Destroyed Historical Archive a picture series by Spiegel Online

GERMAN: http://archiv.twoday.net/topics/Kommunalarchive

(Picture above: "An archivist [Prof. Dr. Polley, Archivschule Marburg] looks at the debris of the collapsed building of Cologne’s city archive in a hall in Cologne, Germany, yesterday." (photograph published on Times&Transsripts)

8 March, 2009

Dear Colleagues,

The interest in the fate of the Historical Archive in Cologne continues to grow unabated among experts. Much help has been offered - hence this report and further information on coordinating aid.

Today (March 8) an archive crisis-team has been assembled - consisting of representatives of the city, the historical archive, the professional firefighters of Cologne, the state archive of North Rhine-Westphalia, [various other archive administrations], and restorers - which will advise and make decisions on further steps of the recovery process.

On Wednesday, a large portion of the rubble-heap could be spared the rain that set in a couple hours later, by being covered by tarps. Delays occurred while a roof was being constructed over the rubble; these had to do with the uncertain stability of the school across from it. Only once that stability had been assured could the construction of the roof be undertaken. As of today, one third of the rubble heap has been stabilized by the roof; the remaining portions of the roof are being prepared and will be erected in the course of the next couple of days.

What has been saved, and how? First, how: At the site, firefighters are carrying the archival materials by hand - very carefully and according to established techniques [fachgerecht] - from the areas of the site that are ready to be cleared. The archival materials come from the areas that had to be cleared in order to allow for the construction of the roof and that arose during the search for missing persons. These materials are undergoing a preliminary examination, and then being packed up by archivists, restorers, museum workers, and other specialists on site. The condition is highly variable. Some of the materials have been damaged considerably, but there are some files and even boxes of files that have been completely preserved, and that could, in theory, be used again right away. Especially wet materials have been set aside. Away from the accident site, in a covered hall, all of the debris that's been hauled away in trucks is being examined and sorted. At the moment - a!
side from firefighters, rescue workers, [and other emergency specialists] - there are continually between 40 and 50 people in action, working in three shifts, around the clock, seven days a week. The archival holdings are being pre-sorted, readied for transport into the warehouse, and/or packed for freezing [Einfrierung]. The helpers include many colleagues from Cologne archives and from other places as well. In the next few days, the Archive School in Marburg will be sending over 50 students, teachers and other staff. The Fachhochschule in Potsdam has also offered help, which will be arriving soon.

Special thanks are owed to everyone, really everyone who has helped out on site, setting themselves to the task tirelessly and pushing themselves to the limits of their own capabilities. The solidarity among the Cologne archivists from all corners - without consideration of their career levels or divisions - is simply overwhelming. Colleagues throughout the state and country are also giving tremendous support.

At the moment we are seeking a larger hall in which the long-term conditions for the sorting work can proceed more efficiently; in this domain we're optimistic. I've just looked at one possible site that I'd noticed along with my colleague Dr. Ulrich Fischer. Further offers are coming from the city administration; in the next few days, we will certainly have a longer-term place to be able to sort through the archival materials in a way that is safe, climate-controlled, and technically appropriate.

The Historical Archive of Cologne nonetheless still needs help, now and in the coming weeks - above all from our colleagues! Only specialized help can save these cultural artifacts from 1000 years!

Offers to help are coming in from all over the world. In order to ensure a better coordination, we'd like to channel the aid as follows:

1) Offers for shelving and storage units [Magazinflächen]

Please contact the LVR-Archivberaturngs- und Fortbildungszentrum, attn. Herrn Dr. Arie Nabrings, rafo@lvr.de. There the donated units will be pre-sorted and transferred to the Historical Archive.

2) Offers of personnel (archivists)

Please contact me first as the representative of the Association of German Archivists (VdA) on site. To facilitate all our work, please also be sure to contact this address - rwwa@koeln.ihk.de - with information about your position or that of your group. We need the following information: first and last names, current position, place, telephone number, email address, and duration of your term (Excel-spreadsheet). Please understand that any archivist who needs a place to stay overnight (we'll help with this) should count on spending at least three days here; otherwise the administrative costs are prohibitively high. In particular the large archive administrations are asked to [vet or oversee] an assembly of specialized workers.

3) Offers of personnel (restorers)

Please contact bert.jacek@fh-koeln.de with the information asked for above.

All offers already made have been considered here; a new communication is not necessary (and actually makes our work harder).

At the moment, the most important thing we need is personnel; consider the fact that, for the time being, it's necessary to have people working night shifts - over a full seven-day week - so that items can be salvaged as quickly as possible. Only when the systematic and coordinated recovery of items from the rubble has been undertaken can we shift to working through the salvaged materials as a strictly daytime activity.

There are of course various ways of contributing to this cause. But this message is aimed, above all, at archivists, with a plea for assistance with personnel in the coming weeks. We ask you to help now in the senses described above. Please show your solidarity through your specialized assistance.

All responsible parties - the city, fire department, and outside organizations - are well aware of the significance of the archival holdings, and they're undertaking every conceivable measure to save as much as possible! We are overseeing daily the rescue of materials at the site of operation. Just today I've witnessed a high level of engagement both at the disaster site and in the relocation areas.

The Historical Archive of Cologne, as an institution, did not collapse on March 3, 2009. We will all work to ensure that it receives a secure and sufficiently sized new building, in which the previous holdings as well as new ones can be used. The memory of Cologne - and, with it, the Rhineland and, in part, the nation - has a future! Together with the more than forty other archives in Cologne the Historical Archive will do justice to its mission in the future as well.

With warm regards,

Dr. Ulrich S. Soénius
Director
Stiftung Rheinisch-Westfälisches
Wirtschaftsarchiv zu Köln
Unter Sachsenhausen 10-26
50667 Cologne
Email: ulrich.soenius@koeln.ihk.de
Internet: www.ihk-koeln.de/archiv/index.htm

Via Mail, posted at H-France

"THE ARCHIVE WAS OUR LIFE" - notes from an interview with Bettina Schmidt-Czaia (Head of the Cologne Historical Archive)

http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/archive-was-our-life-interview-with.html

From the Summary IV at
http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-vi.html

UPDATE 3: After the meeting of the Kulturausschuss der Landschaftsversammlung Rheinland in Cologne, the Landschaftsverband Rheinland (LVR) ensured and substantiated its help and support for the rescue of the Cologne Historical Archive inventory, once again. The LVR will provide its spatial, material and personnel resources as needed. The concrete support at the scene is one team consisting of five conservators of the Landschaftsverband Rheinland Archivberatungs- und Fortbildungszentrum. This team uses its knowledge in an unbureaucratical way to rescue and secure the inventory. The LVR also makes transport boxes, masks, wrapping foil, moveable pallets and other needed things available.
Ulrich Soénius, director of the Rheinische Wirtschaftsarchiv, and Jürgen Wilhelm, chairman of the LVR suggest an aid fund which should bundle up financial resources of insurances, German federal and state governments as well as other public and private institutions. (das Jülicht 11.03.2009 12:30 via Archivalia)

UPDATE 2:“Besides the handwritings of Albertus Magnus, scientists bewail big losses for research on political catholicism. The Cologne Historical Archive coffered among others the bequest of Carl Bachem (1858-1945), the journalist and politician of the catholic Zentrum-party. Bachem belonged to the leadership of catholic politicians in the Kaiserreich and the Weimarer Republik.” (Radio Vatikan 10.03.2009 16:27 via Archivalia)

UPDATE 1: The state government North Rhine-Westphalia supports the Cologne Historical Archive with 300,000 Euro for immediate aid. (Koelner Stadtanzeiger 11.03.2009 08:33 via Archivalia)

The Konferenz der Archivreferenten des Bundes und der Laender [German federal and state archive administrations conference] (ARK) give following statements on the collapse of the Cologne Historical Archive's (CHA) building in Muenster-Coerde on March 10th 2009 (ARK statements [German] via Archivalia):

The German federal and state archive administrations are deeply shocked by the collapse of the CHA building and the loss of human lifes. They feel sympathy for the persons affected and their families.

The Bundesarchiv and German state archives offer their assistance to the Cologne fellows. They offer their solidly united support on the actual rescue and recovery of the archival material. The CHA will coordinate this support.

Furthermore help is needed by all German archives to restore the (damaged) rescued archival material. The German federal and state archives will make every endeavor to assist the CHA at this.
The catastrophe in Cologne showed the special meaning of appropriate emergency plans. These plans have to be obligatory nationwide. They have to be implemented area-wide. They should not fail by limits of adminstrative structure.

The archives, whose value for the basis of our polity became clear after the catastrophy, need more support, in the fields of preventing catastrophies, by the government and the society in future times, f.e. by security filmings [digitizations]

The standards for archive buildings (existing or in future to be built) need to be examined carefully, especially when the constructional parameters in the surrounding of the archives could change. The responsible bodies are asked to do so.

The German federal and state archive administrations are confident that the CHA will continue to be a cultural institution of national and European distinction, despite the considerable loss. It is also convinced that the city of Cologne will face the responsibility to rebuild and preserve the archive.

Edited by Frank Schloeffel

http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-iii.html (Thanks, Frank!)

[ATTENTION UPDATE:
http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-iii.html ]

In general
Prof. Georg Quander (Head of the Squad for Culture and Art of the City of Cologne) qualifies the situation at the scene as unclear and catastrophic. Michael Knocke, director of the Herzogin Anna Amalia Library, Weimar confirms that the collapse of the Cologne Historical Archive’s building is more fatal than the fire at the library in 2004. He refers to the unique documents destroyed in Cologne.
The atmosphere at the scene is described as „gently optimistic“.

Rescue-Process
Now up to 15-20% of archival inventory (total 30 kilometers). In any case not all the documents can be rescued. Restoration will take 20-30 years. Firefighters only save archival material in the process of rescuing persons (Notbergung). As long as Notbergung is processed, the recovery process of archival documents cannot be optimized. When the 2nd missed person (current depth of rescue work 5,5-6 m) is going to be found, the Cologne Archive will become coordinating institution of the rescue work. Soon the Cologne archive staff will change from a tiny office to a floor in the Deutzer Stadthaus (Willy-Brandt-Platz 2).
The Cologne archive staff as well as supporting institutions work in three shifts of 20 attendees. Mayor tasks are rescuing and sorting (broadly) the documents. Some of the documents are almost undamaged, others are completely corrupted. It depends on the concrete locality. The archvists arrange the documents by kind of damage: parchment or paper, wet or dry. Wet documents are boxed. They will be frozen for min. two years. Afterwards, freeze drying will start.
The two handwritings of the theologist and philosopher Albertus Magnus as well as four of five volumes of Chronik des Kölner Ratsherren Hermann von Weinsberg [Chronicle of the city of Cologne’s councilman Hermann von Weinsberg], published in 16th century, belong to the rescued archival material of special meaning. Furthermore the (shredded) files of Cologne housing office appeared. The Historical Archive’s head, Dr. Bettina Schmidt-Czaia, doubts the reconstructibility.

Interim solution for a Historical Archive's building
In the meantime a storehouse in Cologne has been found. It seems to have proper facilities for housing a provisional Historical Archive. (Press Service city of Cologne 10.03.2009, 08:58 a.m.)

Pictures from the Rescue Work at the scene
"Die Archiv-Trümmer" [The archive rubble] (Express.de via Archivalia)
ttp://tinyurl.com/aufow3

SEE ALSO COLOGNE HISTORICAL ARCHIVE - POSSIBILITIES TO HELP
http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/cologne-historical-archive.html

GERMAN: http://archiv.twoday.net/topics/Kommunalarchive

http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-of-latest-developments.html (Thanks, Frank)

“Acting quickly, Germany's Prometheus image archive launched a special OA collection, Das digitale Historische Archiv Köln, to host and protect digital copies of documents from the Köln (Cologne) city archives, which collapsed on March 3. The new archive is calling for help in collecting documents on the history of Cologne. (Thanks to Klaus Graf.)“ (Open Access News 09.03.2009 06:31 p.m. via Archivalia@Twitter)

Even after six days have passed since the collapse of Cologne Historical Archive’s building, rescue workers are still searching for the 24 years old man in the rubble. (Reuters 09.03.2009 12:21)
The national meaning of the documents was the reason that the German Kulturrat, the Spitzenverband der Bundeskulturverbände asked the Kulturstaatsminister Bernd Neumann for support to reconstruct the Historical Archive Cologne (like he did for the Anna Amalia Library in Weimar), especially the restauration of the documents should be focused. (Deutscher Kulturrat 08.03.2009 via Archivalia)

Institutions and societies offer support with the recovery and restauration of the still capable to rescue material of the Historical Archive. Any kind of support is needed: financial, material, in person.The secretary-general of the Kulturstiftung der Länder, promises a immediate aid for the fast and secure protection of the valuable archival inventory. (Koelner Stadtanzeiger 06.03.2009 12:16 a.m. via Archivalia@Twitter)

Precedent entries see

http://archiv.twoday.net/topics/English+Corner/

http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/update-cologne-historical-archive.html (Thanks for translating, Frank!)

There is some additional information on conditions and outlines of supporting Cologne Historical Archive at the scene for ARCHIVISTS (senior service) and CONSERVATORS (especially for paper and photography) based on Archivalia 09.03.2009 11:08:
ARCHIVISTS please contact: rwwa@koeln.ihk.de
CONSERVATORS please contact: bert.jacek@fh-koeln.de
(Leave your name, agency, possible dates and working hours as well as your contact information)
Min. duration of work assignment is 3 days. Work will be done all week long (7 days). There are shifts of 6 hours starting at 8:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Accommodation and board will be taken care of.

Tasks:
Fellows who want to join the team in Cologne are going to
1) record rescued material in lists
2) develop the future working process (restauration, professional storage solutions)
3) provisionally box the material

See also:
http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/cologne-historical-archive.html

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1883770,00.html?cnn=yes



See also
http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/shakespeare-picture-portrait.htm

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/03/look-here-upon.html