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The 2009 Cologne Archives collapse was a disaster for historians."[I]n 2009, after an architectural competition, a decision on a newarchive building was made. It was planned to accommodate not only thearchive institution itself but also the Kunst- und Museumsbibliothek,a renowned art and museum library, and the Rheinische Bildarchiv, acollection of photographs on the history of art, architecture, cultureand photography in Cologne. The plan was to build the “safest andstate-of-the-art city archive in Europe“ by 2017. After the decisionof the city council, a detailed concept was worked out and approved.In the light of the city's financial crisis, in 2013 the localpolitical discussion moved towards re-thinking the decision and evento a planning moratorium. Protests of the local supporting groups aswell as national archive organizations followed."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Archive_of_the_City_of_ColognePlease join the friends of the Archives and German archivists bysigning a petition against the planning stop:https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/fuer-die-aufhebung-des-planungsstopps-fuer-den-neubau-des-historischen-archivs-der-stadt-koeln(nearly 1000 supporters until now)Please choose "Sprache auswählen" at the right for an English version.Thank you for signing and forwarding!Dr Klaus Graf, RWTH Aachen archivisthttp://archivalia.tumblr.com/tagged/archiveshttps://plus.google.com/109080670989349548459/posts/gSFpkEjCdyu (Archives-L)