Archives of audio recordings of meetings
Identity Statement | Context | Content and Structure | Conditions of access and use | Description control | Database
Identity Statement [Top]
Reference code(s)
CERN-ARCH-AUDIO
Title
Archives of Audio recordings of meetings
Date(s)
March 1956 - Today
Level of description
Series
Extent of the unit of description
623 boxes; 62 linear metres
Context [Top]
Name of creator
CERN Translation and Minutes Service
Administrative history
CERN Translation and Minutes Service
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Translation and minutes Service
Content & Structure [Top]
Scope and content
This collection contains recordings of Council, Committee of Council, Finance Committee, Scientific Policy Committee, European Committee for Future Accelerators, Standing Consultation Committee, Finance Committee Working Group meetings... recorded on tapes and cassettes between March 1956 to present.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information
Nothing was destroyed.
Accruals
Further accruals are expected.
System of arrangement
The original order has been preserved. There was no classification plan, but for the purposes of cataloguing the records have been divided into 22 major groups :
01 - Council
02 - Committee of Council, CC
03 - Finance Committee, FC
04 - Scientific Policy Committee, SPC
05 - European Committee for Future Accelerators, ECFA
06 - Standing Consultation Committee, SCC - Comité de Concertation Permanent, CCP
07 - Consultative Committee on Employment Conditions, CCEC
08 - Review of Employment and Social Conditions of CERN Personnel, RESCO
09 - Commission des Recours
10 - Caisse d'Assurances
11 - Rules and regulations
12 - Working Group
13 - Pensions
14 - Sécurité Sociale
15 - Staff Association
16 - Director General's meetings
17 - Tripartite Advisory Committee on Conditions of Employment, TRACE
- Tripartite Employment Conditions Forum, TREF
18 - Investment Committee
19 - Colloquium
20 - Miscellaneous
21 - Finances
22 - Technology Transfer Task Force, TTTF
23 - Scientific Conference
24 - Audio Archive
25 - Oral History
Conditions of access and use [Top]
Conditions governing access
See file level description and the CERN operational circular No 3: rules applicable to archival material and archiving at CERN. In general, records on any subject that are over 30 years old, and all records of a purely scientific nature, may be consulted.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright is retained by CERN, no reproduction without permission.
Language / scripts of material
Most of the material is written in English.
Finding aids
Listed to item level in the CERN Archives Database.
Description control [Top]
Archivist's note
Description prepared by Sandrine Reyes and Marc Sutter
Date(s) of description
Geneva, the 27th August 2001, Revised 2011