Intermunicipal Archives of Rogaland

From the Norwegian Wikipedia page

Intermunicipal Archive in Rogaland IKS (IKA Rogaland) is an intermunicipal company owned by 25 municipalities in Rogaland. IKA Rogaland was founded on 1 January 1976 and was the first inter-municipal archive to be established in Norway. The archive has six employees and currently has room for 5 km of archive material. The archive is one of several intermunicipal archives in Norway.

History
Intermunicipal archive in Rogaland was established because the then state archivist in Stavanger, Hans Eyvind Næss, wanted to strengthen archive protection in the public sector. When IKA Rogaland was established in 1976, it had 13 member municipalities. Today, all the municipalities in Rogaland are members, except Stavanger municipality which has its own city ​​archive. From 2017, Rogaland County Municipality also became the owner.

For the first ten years, IKA Rogaland mainly operated with the arrangement of the elderly and completed archive material for the member municipalities. Eventually, IKA Rogaland also began with consulting assistance and course activities. In the 1990s, IKA Rogaland also began to provide advice on the use of IT in archive formation and was involved in developing KOARK, which is an archive system.

In 1992, the Odelsting passed the Act on assets and in 1999 the regulations for this law were available. This law was of great importance for the further development of IKA Rogaland and also opened up for there to be a depot. In 2002, IKA Rogaland became a depot and in August of the same year received the first submission of archive cases. Another consequence of the law was that IKA Rogaland went from being an inter-municipal enterprise to an inter-municipal company.

In 2017, the Intermunicipal Archive in Rogaland will move to the Archives' house at Ullandhaug in Stavanger. They are then co-located with the State Archives in Stavanger, Stavanger City Archives and parts of the Mission Archives. The archives' house will be a modern archive building with an exhibition area, reading room and café.

Activities
IKA Rogaland's main tasks are both to provide advice and hold courses in modern archive formation and archive planning and to be a depot for older archive material in the municipalities. As a depot, IKA Rogaland accepts both archives, both in paper and electronic format.

The archive shall preserve material and make it available for public use, research and cultural purposes. It will also be involved in developing efficient and rational archive services for its owners.

Governance
The highest body for the company is the supervisory board, in which all member municipalities participate. The supervisory board elects 4 representatives from the municipalities to the board. In addition, the employees must also elect 1 representative to the board.

Location
IKA Rogaland shares premises with the State Archives in Stavanger and has offices and a magazine at Bergelandsgate 30 in Stavanger. IKA Rogaland also shares a reading room with the State Archives in Stavanger and here the public can access the archive material.

The website is