TIRANA, June 4/ATA/ The General Directorate of Archives opened the Archive Corner in Berat and Skrapar.
Attending the event was Director of the General Directorate of Archives prof. assoc. dr. Ardit Bido, director of the Cultural Center “Margarita Tutulani” Arben Qafa and mayor of Berat, Ervin Demo.
For those who will visit the service offered in the Archive Corner Berat, the procedures are the same as in the study room in Tirana, without the slightest change.
In this corner, through this platform, every researcher can request archival documents from the fund that has over 300 million documents that the Albanian State Archive has, without having to travel to the study room of the General Directorate of Archives.
Registration in the Study Room is done from every computer with internet connection, outside this Archive Corner.
Another Archive Corner was opened today in the premises of the “Riza Cerova” Palace of Culture thanks to cooperation with the municipality of Skaprar.
In his speech, the director of the General Directorate of Archives Ardit Bido stressed the importance of this project that comes to the aid of all citizens who are interested in archival documents, in the country where they live.
Mayor of Skrapar Adriatik Mema said that, “I hope that this will give a new impetus to the use of this service by different age groups, especially by young people, as for them this is a more attractive, easier way ”.
The initiative aims to open 100 archival corners wherever Albanians live, but currently this is a service offered in Gjirokastra, Saranda, Pogradec, Lushnja, Skopje (North Macedonia), Pristina and Elbasan./p.s./
