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Arkir - newsletter of the National Archives

The main subject of the newsletter is the collection of the National Archives, its dissemination and access to it. Short news articles on the museum’s site are also published, as appropriate, as well as informational pieces of various kinds.

2024

Arkir 9. tbl. 20. desember 2024

  • A celebration from the National Archives

  • Reading room slots during the holidays

  • Anna Agnarsdóttir leaves the chair of the board of directors of the National Archives of Iceland

  • Educational visit to the National Archives by the staff of the regional archives

  • Visit to the Akranes Regional Archive

  • New action plan for the European National Archives Consultative Group adopted

  • From Orðabelg: Festum Sti. Stephani

Arkir 8. tbl. 6. desember 2024

  • Advent Calendar of the National Archives 2024 - Jólaskjalatal

  • STEF delivers its archives to the National Archives for preservation

  • Housewarming on National Archives Day 2024

  • The National Archives of Iceland receives funding for costs of work in rural areas

  • From Orðabelg: Kirkjuár

Arkir 7. tbl. 14. nóvember 2024

  • The research day 2024 is today - Open conference

  • Presentation of business at 13-14

  • Presentation of business at 14:15-15:15

Arkir 6. tbl. 8. nóvember 2024

  • Databases in historical research and dissemination - National Archives Research Day 14 November 2024

  • The Committee for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (SDR) will decide on the last areas of the mainland Iceland.

  • The National Archives’ Hollvinasamtök (The Hollvina Association of the National Archives) establishes the year of operation

  • Meeting of Public Archives 2024

  • From Orðabelg: Miltisveiki

Arkir 5. tbl. 14. október 2024

  • General meeting of the Hollvinas Association of the National Archives of Iceland

  • A new area of education and research

  • Arrests, insults and detention in the home of a district judge - The Supreme Court of Iceland Volume IV

  • Nordic archivists meeting in Hveragerði 29-30 August

  • National archivist visits regional archives

  • From Orðabelg: Reppagogus

Arkir 4. tbl. 2. september 2024

  • A new online database of mediation committee books has been launched

  • Receipt of archives in the second quarter of 2024

  • Documentation in the National Archives

  • Transfer of projects and collection benefits of the Kópavogur Regional Documentary to the National Archives

  • From Orðabelg: Innstæða

Arkir 3. tbl. 14. júní 2024

  • National archivist visits the District Archives of the East Fjords

  • New European document policy adopted for 2025-2030

  • Tragedy, mystery, people and documents

  • Information security discussed at the National Archives of Iceland’s multi-day spring conference

  • The website of the National Archives of Iceland opened on Ísland.is

  • From Orðabelg: Gimpur

Arkir 2. tbl. 30. apríl 2024

  • The National Archives of Iceland’s spring conference - Information security in archiving and document management – is there anything to be warned about?

  • New website of the National Archives of Iceland at Ísland.is

  • Possibly the first fake bill in Iceland

  • Awarding project grants to regional archives

  • Receipt of archives in the first quarter of 2024

  • Danish Women in Iceland in the Eighteenth Century

  • Museum Night at the National Archives

  • From the Orbit: Mortualia

Arkir 1. tbl. 1. febrúar 2024

  • “The Constitution in the Past, Present and Future” - Museum Night at the National Archives 2024

  • 51 years since the Vestmannaeyjar eruption - The never-used contingency plan

  • Delegation from Chinese Communist Party visiting

  • Drawings of the State House Masters in Society

  • Documentary 10 years - a decade of knowledge

  • From the Vocabulary Bar: Fírkassi