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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. He was General State Archivist (National Archivist)
of The Netherlands from 1989-1997. From 1997-2001 he was part-time Inspector
General of the State Archives Service of the Netherlands and subsequently General
Counsel to the National Archivist. 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 was
visiting professor at Gakushuin University (Tokyo)
and the University of Toronto 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 has been a member of the European Commission on
Preservation and Access 1994-2000. He was president of the Records Management Convention of The Netherlands; since 2009 he is an honorary member of the
RMC. Since 2010 he is one of the directors of the DLM Forum. 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. He wrote some 350 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. From 1986 to 2012 he was editor of a multi-author loose-leaf handbook on archives and records management methodology and practice (now about 2000 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'. |
