Anna Ketola Documentation, Collections and Archives from the Civil Society ICARUS-Meeting #17 | Transparency - Accessibility – Dialogue. How a creative archival landscape can effect society 23–25 May 2016, Krukmakarens hus (The Potter´s house), Mellangatan 21, 621 56 Visby / The Regional State Archives in Visby, Broväg 27, 621 41 Visby, Sweden

1. Documentation, Collection and
Archives from the Civil Society
Anna Ketola
anna.ketola@skanearkiv.se

2. National movements or
movments within the people?
• In Sweden 90% of the adult population have membership in at least one
association, the majority have membership in a union
• In Sweden 25% of the adult population have membership in at least four (4)
associations
• 50% of the adult population have made a speech within a meeting
• 150 000 – 200 000 associations (21 000 in Skåne County)
– 138 286 non-profit associations, 7 000 financial associations and more than 10 000
societies and cooperatives (2013)
– 280 000 study circles were arranged by the ten(10) largest educational associations and
28 000 housing co-operatives were registered in 2013

3. The Swedish map of archives
Public Archives
Authorities and functions:
The National Archives, Authority
Archives, County Council Archives,
Municipal and City Archives etc.
Files and records:
Are maintained by archive authority
or working public archives.
Covers by the openness principle, the
official archives act, the official
secrets act, the official local act etc.
Is regulated in detail by constitutions
and directions.
Private Archives
Organization:
National, Regional and Local Archive
associations
Files and records:
Are maintained by private record offices,
public record offices, museums, native
districts associations, libraries etc.
Are not covered by legislation.
There are exceptions: the act of
bookkeeping, the official act of personal
records, the act of listed building or
monument.
The openness principle do not cover private
archives.

4. The movement and messiness within
the associations archives
Regional archive associations – Regional Popular
Movements and Local history Archives in Skåne County,
Archives of Trade and Industry in Skåne County.
Local archive associations – Labour Movement Archives in
Landskrona, Trelleborg etc
National profile archives – Labour Movement
Archives and Library, TAM Arkiv, UFO arkivet,
The Centre of Trade and Industry history
Museer – The Nordic Museum, The
Museum of Work, Landskrona museum
Municipal and City archives
The National archives
Native Districts Associations
Local and Regional profile archives – Archives of Sports in
Helsingborg, Labour Movement Archives in Skåne County,
Archives & Student Museum in Lund, Rockarkivet i Hultsfred
County Council record offices
Attics, basements, wardrobes and drawers Organizations and businesses

5. Collect – File – Preserve and Maintain

6. Accessibility and Intermediation
• Research room and
support
• Education activities
• Groups and visits
• Programme activities
• Publishing

7. Dokumentation
• Oral history
• Inventory and collecting
• Contemporary documetation

8. Guidance - Education
• Guidance and field work
• Courses/classes – for
instance: Order and clarity
of papers in the association
• Recordsmanagement