1) Self-conception / Legal basis
The Kunst-ARCHIV-Raum is the central archive of the Mozarteum University in the sense of § 3 Abs. 2 Z 3 Bundesarchivgesetz. The Art-ARCHIVE-Room documents the present and historical activities of the University Mozarteum and makes them publicly accessible. As a public institution, the Art ARCHIVE Room supports teaching, development of the arts and research through the
- long-term archiving of all documents accruing at the organizational units (in particular departments, institutes and administrative units) of the Mozarteum University Salzburg and its legal predecessors (including image and sound carriers, plans, printed matter, etc…), provided they are classified as archival.
- Advising organizational units on the preservation of potential archival materials.
- Securing, appraising, and preserving archival materials from sources other than the University's organizational units (e.g., records of University employees or partner institutions).
- Making archived holdings available for official, scholarly, artistic, and journalistic purposes.
- Supporting or participating in the scientific and artistic evaluation and presentation of archival holdings in publications, exhibitions, and other.
The Kunst-ARCHIV-Raum maintains active contact with national and international professional associations.
2) Archival records
Records are considered in particular written documents, manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, handwritten creative transcripts, sketches, files, deeds, account books, publications, registers, maps, plans, as well as visual, film and audio material, files or other information carriers in analog or digital form. Documents worthy of archiving are those that make essential activities and business processes comprehensible and are of historical, artistic, political or legal significance for the Mozarteum University Salzburg because of their content or because of the persons involved. Documents from private sources (e.g. estates) will be kept as long as they have been handed over to the Art ARCHIVE Room for safekeeping, have been classified as worthy of archiving by the archive or university management, and permanent archiving can be guaranteed.
3) Transfer of archival records
The organizational units of the Mozarteum University shall transfer all records that have been classified as being of archival value to the Kunst-ARCHIVRaum no later than 10 years after the records have been closed. The handing over is based on transfer lists, which are prepared by the offering unit according to the specifications of the Kunst-ARCHIV-Raum. Organizational units of the Mozarteum University, which take care of the custody of their archive material themselves by Rectorate decision, are obliged to name a responsible operator and to provide the Kunst-ARCHIV-Raum with a written overview of the existing documents as well as the conditions of use.
4) Use of the archive
The Kunst-ARCHIV-Raum is a reference archive. A consultation service is provided for the archive users. The offer of an online research is aimed at. The archive material can be used by direct inspection, oral or written requests to the Kunst-ARCHIV-Raum and request for reproductions (for a fee) from the Kunst-ARCHIV-Raum. Archival records are generally subject to an archival hold period of 30 years or 30 years after the death of the individual(s) involved except in the case of consent by the individual(s) involved. Blocking periods do not apply to archival records that are intended for publication or have already been published. The statutory provisions, in particular the Federal Archives Act, the Copyright Act and the Data Protection Act, must be complied with. The detailed terms of use are set out in the user regulations.
