Here are some English News and comments on the Cologne catastrophe

Feel free to add more coverage in the comments of this entry!

News:

"People in the city archive building managed to escape shortly before it collapsed Tuesday. Police say the two men missing lived in one of two neighboring buildings that were partially destroyed."
http://www.pr-inside.com/german-officials-2-missing-in-building-r1093510.htm

PLEASE HELP:
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5568507/

See also (the newest entry is always added to the top):

http://www.ancbs.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71&Itemid=37

http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5570835/

http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5568458/

http://www.nowpublic.com/world/building-collapses-cologne-germany-2-4-missing-updated

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5846343.ece

http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5561083/

http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=H-German&month=0903&week=a&msg=WM0M50Of8HPMXgC0Fp134A

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,611311,00.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7921988.stm

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4071595,00.html

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&topic=801899&gonew=1

http://www.thelocal.de/society/20090303-17777.html

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-germany-archives17-2009may17,0,5628154.story (Interview with Schmidt-Czaja)

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/17/content_11388471.htm (Czech expert: Only 30% of collapsed Cologne archives to be saved)


Comments:

http://larchivista.blogspot.com/2009/03/more-on-historical-archive-of-city-of.html

http://larchivista.blogspot.com/2009/03/collapse-of-historic-archive-of-city-of.html

http://larchivista.blogspot.com/2009/03/recovery-efforts-in-cologne.html

http://larchivista.blogspot.com/2009/03/bad-news-from-cologne.html

http://larchivista.blogspot.com/2009/03/thoughts-on-cologne.html

http://larchivista.blogspot.com/2009/03/more-thoughts-on-cologne.html

http://larchivista.blogspot.com/2009/03/offices-raided-in-cologne.html

http://larchivista.blogspot.com/2009/04/news-from-cologne.html

http://larchivista.blogspot.com/2009/04/bettina-schmidt-czaia-cologne-archives.html

http://larchivista.blogspot.com/2009/05/cologne-archives-site-in-april.html

http://larchivista.blogspot.com/2009/05/cologne-archive-update.html

Pictures:

Pictures of some (lost?) treasures in a German flyer:

http://www.stadt-koeln.de/mediaasset/content/pdf44/150-jahre-historisches-archiv.pdf

http://blog.northwesthistory.org/

Approved March 1, 2009, 11:33 A.M.

Resolutions of the Associates of Northwest History Network
with respect to the
Oregon Historical Society Research Library

At the moment of marking its 150th anniversary of statehood, Oregon is on the verge of losing the very stuff of its history and its collective memory.

The Oregon Historical Society has announced the closure of its Research Library—a nationally significant historical resource that is the fount of knowledge for all Oregonians who examine the past in order to understand the present. This action promises to break the Society’s trust with its membership, with researchers and educators, and with all Oregonians, who for more than a century have been assured by the Society that their history would be cared for, tended to, and made available to a wide audience.

This is a tragedy that must be faced and a situation that must be resolved. These immense treasures—millions of items comprised of photographs, diaries, books, manuscripts, newspapers, magazines and journals, maps and charts, business records, personal letters and papers, films, and sound recordings—must not be allowed to fade into oblivion without our very public and personal efforts to rescue them.

The actions of the board and leadership of the Oregon Historical Society in closing the Research Library and firing its dedicated professional staff are unacceptable to the Northwest History Network, a nonprofit consortium of history professionals. The membership of Northwest History Network has approved the following resolutions:


Resolved, that the closure of the Research Library of the Oregon Historical Society is a critical blow to the people of the state of Oregon including hundreds of researchers, students and family historians and authors and filmmakers, and others; and,

Resolved, that this closure and the risks that it brings to the care and preservation of priceless historical materials deserves to be fully examined by concerned Oregonians; and,

Resolved, that while the Society’s financial condition is critical and that it requires steep reductions in staff and programs, the maintenance of the Society’s Research Library should be its highest priority; and

Resolved, that the Oregon Historical Society must acknowledge its responsibilities to its membership, to the research community, and to all Oregonians, to preserve and to make accessible research materials that have been entrusted to its care and funded by generations of Oregon citizens; and,

Resolved, that the Oregon Historical Society must work transparently and collaboratively to craft a sustainable solution for the Research Library and its irreplaceable collections; and

Resolved, we request the Governor appoint a task force to review the present situation and recommend a permanent and sustainable solution for the Oregon Historical Society Research Library.

[signed by NHN associates and board members]

http://brandeisspecialcollections.blogspot.com/2009/02/helmut-hirsch-collection.html

Helmut “Helle” Hirsch (1916-1937) was a German Jewish youth executed by the Nazis on June 4, 1937.

A rare 1776 copy of the Declaration of Independence belongs to a Virginia technology entrepreneur, not the state of Maine, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled Friday. Richard Adams Jr. of Fairfax County purchased the document from a London book dealer in 2001 for $475,000. But the state of Maine claimed it belongs to the town of Wiscasset, where it was kept by the town clerk in 1776.

[...]

Maine state archivist David Cheever said he found it "incredible" that the state's rights were trumped by a private collector. Maine contended the document never should have been sold because of a state law which presumes that public documents remain public property unless ownership is expressly relinquished by the government.

"To us, it's a public document. It was then. It is now," Cheever said.

Read more at
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090227/ap_on_re_us/declaration_lawsuit

http://www.courts.state.va.us/opinions/opnscvwp/1080987.pdf

The “History of Archives, Recordkeeping, and Records Wiki” has moved to its new location at

http://archiveshistory.pbwiki.com

http://www.paulhagon.com/playground/flickr/streetview/nypl/

Via Fotostoria

http://www.kb.dk/en/news/copenhagen-images.html

52.300 images of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg are now accessible online in the National Picture Database.

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