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Location Organisation About The Hague Registration Sponsors Press Contact About the congress VVBAD, the Belgium association for archivists, and KVAN, the Dutch association for archivists, are holding an international congress titled Archives without Borders on August 30 and 31, 2010 in the Peace Palace in The Hague, The Netherlands. This Congress commemorates the first international [...]
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