Archive Workers' Day in Ukraine
December 24 · Level 2 · #2000 of 2238
This is the professional day of the people who look after documents, letters and photographs, and with them the memory of the country. It is marked on 24 December by archivists, historians and everyone who works with records.
How it is celebrated: archives hold open days, exhibitions of rare documents and tours of their storage rooms. The best employees receive awards, and colleagues trade stories about their most unusual finds.
Many documents are kept at steady temperature and humidity, because warmth and damp make paper and ink age faster.