as part of our training we visited the Ahaus city archive, which has been in new premises for over two years. It can be seen as a good example of the day-to-day life of small municipal archives and shows that, despite the limited resources available, one can do the best. With Dr Margret Karras, we met a very motivated and highly committed archivist who showed us her institution. Within the framework of the archival consultancy task of the LWL Archives Office for Westfa...