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Swiss Literary Archives (SLA)

The SLA were officially inaugurated at the Swiss National Library in Bern in early 1991. The SLA assembles documents connected to the literature of all four linguistic regions of Switzerland: French, German, Italian and Romansh, with particular emphasis on the 20th and 21st centuries. The Literary Archives hold today some 100 complete fonds and 120 partial fonds and collections.

There are several ways of looking for SLA documents:

Furthermore the SLA oversee many important music manuscripts.

Bibliographic data
Type: 
online
Lang: 
English
French
German
Italian
Country: 
Switzerland
Format: 
text/html - *.htm*.html*.shtml - HTMLfiles
Data
Availability
Access: 
free of costs
Restriction: 
None
Statistics
Review Date: 
06.05.2010
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Geneva Jewish Library - On-line Catalogue

On-line catalogue of the Geneva Jewish Library "Gérard Nordmann" with about 35'000 books and magazines.

Bibliographic data
Type: 
online
Lang: 
English
French
Country: 
Switzerland
Format: 
text/html - *.htm*.html*.shtml - HTMLfiles
Data
Availability
Access: 
free of costs
Statistics
Review Date: 
03.06.2010
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Geneva Jewish Library "Gérard Nordmann"

Characteristics
History

The library was founded in 1945 by the American Jewish Labor Committee (AJLC) and the Oeuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE).

Inventory

The Geneva Jewish Library disposes of more than about 30'000 volumes. It encloses a part (about 1000 volumes) of the collections of the library of the rabbi's seminar of Wroclaw which was destroyed by the Nazis. It also owns a manuscript of David Gans, the Sefer Nehmad ve-naïm, resulted in 1613 in Prague.

Remarks: 

Opening hours:
Mo 16.00-19.00; Tu 16.00-19.00; We 10.00-12.00 and 14.00-17.00,

Postal address
21, av. Dumas
1206
Genève
Switzerland
Contact
Phone number: 
+41 22 317 89 70
Staff
Statistics
Review Date: 
03.06.2010

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO) - "Swiss statistics"

Characteristics
Research

The Siwss Federal Statistical Office (FSO) is a national centre for public statistics. The FSO runs and co-ordinates Switzerland's entire public statistics system. It produces and disseminates key statistical information showing the current status and trends in the fields of demographics, economy, society, spatial planning and environment. FSO also carries out comprehensive analysis, devise indicator systems to monitor complex processes, produces scenario forecasts and maintains a historical database.

Inventory

The web portal „Swiss Statistics“ proposes a wide range of statistical information on the most important areas of life: population, health, economy, employment, education and much more.
The topical and historical statistical information can be investigated by subjects or regions (cantons and states).

Remarks: 

The Statistical Information Service assists to find the sought after data and puts in contact with experts in a given field, whether it be in the library, by phone, e-mail, letter or fax.

Postal address
Espace de l'Europe 10
2010
Neuchâtel
Switzerland
Contact
Phone number: 
+41 32 713 60 11
Staff
Statistics

Paul Sacher Foundation

Characteristics
History

The Paul Sacher Foundation was founded in 1973. At first its purpose was to preserve Paul Sacher's musical library. A short while later the holdings began to be systematically expanded, and its purpose started to change. Today, the Foundation is an international research center for the music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with some eighty estates and collections from leading composers and performers.

Inventory

The archives contain more than eighty estates and collections of important composers, interpreter and other personalities from the whole world. The estates contain autographs, scores, sketches and draughts, text manuscripts, correspondence, parts of the personal library and other documentation material. The library disposes of scientific literature about the music of 20. and 21. Cent., as well as about a collection of magazine articles and a big continuance of mark expenses. The archive is meaningful for the history of music, theatre, dance and film.
Beside the archives and the library the Paul Sacher Foundation encloses also a record collection and a video holding.

Remarks: 

Visiting hours:
Monday-Friday: 9-12am / 1-16:45pm (by appointment).

Postal address
Auf Burg
Münsterplatz 4
4051
Basel
Switzerland
Contact
Phone number: 
+41 61 269 66 44
Fax: 
+41 61 261 91 83
Staff
Statistics
Review Date: 
07.05.2010

Archive of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Characteristics
History

The Bank for International Settlements was established in 1930. It is the world's oldest international financial institution and remains the principal centre for international central bank cooperation. The BIS was established in the context of the Young Plan (1930), which dealt with the issue of the reparation payments imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles following the First World War. Today the bank administers parts of the international foreign exchange reserves and is valid with it virtually as a bank of the central banks of the world. The archive is opened in 1998.

Inventory

The record groups consist largely of various types of correspondence, internal communication and reports. Important collections include files on:
Reparations Office: secretariat files and a documentation library originating from the Berlin Reparations Office (Agent General for Reparations Parker Gilbert). They document the administration of reparations during the 1920s, a function taken over by the BIS and performed until the suspension of reparations by the Lausanne agreement (1932); the administration of international loans issued in connection with the Dawes and Young Plans (Dawes and Young Loans); the operation of the European Payments Union and the European Monetary Agreement from the late 1940s onward; international credit facilities in the granting of which the BIS has been involved e.g. 1966 and 1968 Sterling Group Arrangements; expert meetings and conferences organized by the BIS or in which the BIS participated; papers of senior managers: e.g. R Auboin, Dr E Hülse and Dr P Hechler. Papers of the first Presidents: G McGarrah and L Fraser; There are also over 250 customer and counterparty files, documenting banking policy and banking transactions between the BIS and its counterparties from 1930 (mainly central banks and international institutions).
Detailed information about the holdings of the archive are available in the BIS Archive Guide.

Remarks: 

Opening hours:
Monday-Friday: 9.00-12.30 / 14.00-17.30 (by appointment).

Postal address
Bank for International Settlements
4002
Basel
Switzerland
Contact
Phone number: 
+41 61 280 80 61
Fax: 
+41 61 280 91 00
Staff
Statistics
Review Date: 
06.05.2010

Swiss National Bank - Publications

The Swiss National Bank allocates online publications to the following subjects:

Bibliographic data
Type: 
online
Lang: 
English
French
German
Country: 
Switzerland
Format: 
application/pdf - *.pdf - AdobePDFfiles
Data
Availability
Access: 
free of costs
Statistics
Review Date: 
27.07.2010
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Swiss National Bank - Biographical profiles

The ‘Biographical profiles’ contain information on the professional and political careers of all the former and current Presidents of the SNB’s Bank Council and all of the members of its Governing Board, together with a photograph in all cases.

Bibliographic data
Type: 
online
Lang: 
English
French
German
Country: 
Switzerland
Format: 
text/html - *.htm*.html*.shtml - HTMLfiles
Data
Availability
Access: 
free of costs
Statistics
Review Date: 
27.07.2010
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Swiss National Bank - Chronicle of monetary events

The ‘Chronicle of monetary events’ lists all the most important laws, enactments and decisions in connection with monetary policy since 1848.

Bibliographic data
Type: 
online
Lang: 
English
French
German
Country: 
Switzerland
Format: 
text/html - *.htm*.html*.shtml - HTMLfiles
Data
Availability
Access: 
free of costs
Statistics
Review Date: 
27.07.2010
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Swiss National Bank Archive

Characteristics
Research

The Swiss monetary and central bank policy records are stored in the Swiss National Bank (SNB) Archive. These historical records document the monetary policy issues and challenges with which the Swiss National Bank has been confronted since 1907. They show how the SNB viewed these issues, and how it solved them.

Inventory

Contents of the archive untill 1973: Monetary and exchange rate policy (gold transactions, discount and Lombard policy, general exchange rate policy, relations with other central banks; Measures to combat inflation (foreign funds, economic policy etc.); Monthly reports; Documents on exemptions for the export industry and the records on the „Freigeldbewegung“.
Contents of the archive after 1973: Holdings on changes in and measurement of the supply of money and monetary policy decision-making processes; Statistical series; Internal SNB studies an investigations.
Thematic dossiers on the SNB’s tasks (Coinage Act, Banking Act, Stock Exchange Act, gentleman’s agreements etc.) and on the cooperation with other institutions (European Payments Union, IMF, World Bank etc.).

Remarks: 

Opening hours:
on request.

Postal address
Postfach
Börsenstrasse 15
8022
Zürich
Switzerland
Contact
Phone number: 
+41 44 631 11 11
Additional contacts: 
Berne head office: Bundesplatz 1, 3003 Bern.
Staff
Statistics
Review Date: 
27.07.2010
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