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ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS IN LITHUANIAN STATE HISTORICAL ARCHIVES : PRACTICAL ASPECTS
Virginija Čijunskiene Head of Documents Preservation and Information Division of Lithuanian State Historical Archives
THE HOLDINGS OF LITHUANIAN STATE HISTORICAL ARCHIVES
• 1339181 records
• over 10500000 frames
• over 670000 pages of digital copies
• 16450 linear meters
• 1- fonds of the institutions of Grand Duchy of Lithuania
(15 – 18 c.)
• 2 - fonds of the institutions and organizations of Russian Empire (1792-1915)
• 3 – fonds of institutions of Kaiser Germany (1915- 1918)
• 4 - fonds of Roman catholic, Orthodox, Evangelic Reformats, Evangelic Lutherans, Jewish , Uniates, Muslims and Karaites institutions and communities( 15 -20 c.)
MAIN WAYS TO OBTAIN THE INFORMATION
1 - the requests to the archives to find information
2 - educational excursions and exhibitions of documents
3 - digital copies of documents online
4 - access to documents in reading room
REQUESTS RECEIVED IN LITHUANIAN STATE HISTORICAL ARCHIVES :
• 2006 year - 17853 requests
• 2007 year - 18822 requests
THE STATISTIC OF READING ROOMS
• 2006 year - 933 readers• 12476 visits.
• 2007 year - 1135 readers
• 13866 visits.
THE MAIN GROUPS OF CONTAINING PERSONAL DATA FILES IN LITHUANIAN
STATE HISTORICAL ARCHIVES
• personal files
• church and civil vital registers
• various lists
ACCESS IS RESTRICTED FOR BAD PHYSICAL CONDITION
• 2136 files
• 1842 of them are registers
• 550 of registers are microfilmed
• 21 of registers are ditized