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In 1980 he was appointed Deputy General State
Archivist. Four years later he moved to Groningen to become State Archivist
of that province. Eric
Ketelaar was 1992-2002 part-time Professor of Archivistics in the Department
of History of the University of Leiden. From September 2000 through April
2001 he stayed in Ann Arbor (USA) as The Netherlands Visiting Professor at
the University of Michigan (School of
Information). He has served the Royal Society of Dutch Archivists as Vice President, and President, and was Chairman
of the Steering Committee on Automation. In 1987 the Society awarded him with
the first Hendrik van Wijn medal for his work as editor of the series of
thirteen guides to the archival repositories in the Netherlands. He is
an honorary member of the Society since 2009. He was Secretary for Standardization of the International
Council on Archives from 1980-1984.
The following eight years he was Secretary of the International Conference of
the Round Table on Archives. From 1996-2000 he was Chairman of the
Program Management Commission of the International Council on Archives, Vice-President
and (1998-2000) Acting President of ICA. In September 2000 he was appointed
Honorary President of ICA. He was president of the Records Management Convention of The Netherlands; since 2009 he is an honorary member of the
RMC. Eric Ketelaar is a member of a number of
professional organizations: the Royal Society of Dutch Archivists, Verein
Deutscher Archivare, Society of American Archivists, Netherlands Information
Science Community, etc. He is an elected member of the Society of Dutch
Literature (Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde) and the Royal Dutch
Academy of Sciences (Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen).
In 1987 the French Government awarded him the order of Chevalier de l'Ordre
d'Arts et des Lettres. In 2003 H.M. Queen Beatrix nominated him an Officer of
the Order of Oranje-Nassau. His key-note address Exploitation of new archival
materials at the 1984 International Congress on Archives was translated
into six languages. He has presented papers at conferences and seminars in
several countries, including lecture tours in Australia and South Africa, and
on a wide range of subjects: archival training, legislation, professional
ethics, standards, access, appraisal, electronic records. He wrote the UNESCO guidelines of archives and
records management legislation. As a UNESCO consultant he worked in Indonesia to establish an
archives school in Jakarta. He conducted seminars on archival legislation,
appraisal and archival management in Central Africa, Central and Eastern
Europe and elsewhere. In the summer of 1997 he was a fellow of the Research
Fellowship Program for Study of Modern Archives at the Bentley Historical
Library, University of Michigan. He has been a member of the European
Commission on Preservation and Access 1994-2000. He wrote some 300 articles in Dutch, English, French and German (some of which were translated into other languages) and he wrote or co-authored several books, including two general introductions on archival research and a handbook on Dutch archives and records management law. Since 1986 he is editor of a multi-author loose-leaf handbook on archives and records management methodology and practice (now more than 1600 pages). In 1997 The Archival Image, a collection of his essays in English, French and German, was published. He is one of the three editors-in-chief of 'Archival Science. International Journal on Recorded Information'. |
