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On April 17, 2008, BaltHerNet held an open board meeting at the Directorate General of Latvia State Archives in Riga The meeting was attended by Gatis Karlsons (Directorate General of Latvia State Archives), Digna Berze, Guntis Shvitini (State Archives of Latvia), Valters Shcerbinskis (Latvia State Historical Archives), Linas Saldukas (Lithuanian Emigration Institute), Karin Kiisk (University of Tartu) and Piret Noorhani (Estonian National Museum). The Latvian and Lithuanian colleagues talked about the expansion of their network. The representatives of the Estonian working group introduced their plans for the coming year, which had already secured the approval and financial support of the Compatriot Program. The participants discussed the ways in which Latvian and Lithuanian colleagues could join these activities. There are plans to organize an event on the preservation of cultural heritage for the Baltic communities in Toronto in October 2008 and, in cooperation with the Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council, a seminar on audiovisual archives in Stockholm in spring 2009. The conference on the Baltic archives abroad, scheduled for June 2009, was also discussed. |
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