Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland > Donating archival material
Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland > Donating archival material
Maj-Lis Backlund at the Vaasa Provincial Archives, 1961-1971. Image: Rafael Olin. SLS/Rafael Olins Fotosamling
We accept and preserve both analogue and digital original material related to the Swedish-speaking population in Finland, both local and national. Examples of archival material include letters, journals, manuscripts, notes, photographs, audio and film recordings. We make the material available to researchers and the public.
We accept:
We do not hold government archives. We also do not accept material related to collections already held by other archival institutions or copies and transcripts of documents held in other archives.
We always enter into a donation agreement with the donor for the material we receive. A donation means that the ownership of the material is transferred to SLS. The donor of archival material is always welcome to access the material on site in our research room.
We will organise your donation and register it in our archive database, where it will be searchable by our users. Information about the material will also be searchable in the national search portal Finna. The material becomes available in our reading rooms in Helsinki or Vaasa.
Some digitised and digital documents, photographs, recordings, etc. can also be accessed via Finna. When publishing material online, both legal and ethical aspects are always taken into account.
Before handing over the material, we can agree on how you can roughly inventory it. We are grateful for any information you can provide about what you are donating.