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Swiss federal authorities

This group includes activities related to the management, care, preservation and assessment of libraries and archives.

This group includes:

  • documentation and information activities of libraries and archives of all kinds, including reading, listening and viewing rooms, providing library and archive services to the general public or to a specific public (e.g. students, scientists, staff members)
  • operation of public archives (at governmental, regional or local level) or of private archives (artists’, historians’, writers’ archives, etc.)
  • organisation of a library collection, whether specialised or not, cataloguing collections
  • lending and storage of books, maps, periodicals, films, records, tapes, works of art, archives, etc.
  • retrieval activities in order to comply with information requests, etc.

This group excludes:

  • conservation and restoration of cultural heritage, see 913000