The Archives of the Republic of Slovenia The Archives of the Republic of Slovenia as an institution date back to 1859, when the Carniolan Historical Society proposed the establishment of a provincial archive. This provincial archive later became part of the Provincial Museum (now the Slovene National Museum) in Ljubljana, but in 1926 they were upgraded to become the State Archives, albeit still operating within the Museum.

In October 1945 the National Government of Slovenia established the Central State Archives of Slovenia, which began to operate as an independent institution and acquired its present name in 1991. Following the political changes, the so-called ‘Special Archives’ (the Historical Archives of the Central Committee of the Slovene League of Communists) were abolished and merged with the State Archives in 1990 and two years later the former Archives of the Institute of the History of the Labour Movement (later renamed the Institute of Modern History) were also incorporated. Finally, in 1998, the Archives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, comprising records of the National Security Agency, were added to the State Archive’s holdings. The special section Slovene Film Archives was established in 1968.

The primary aim of the ARS is to collect, preserve, process and facilitate access to the national archival heritage of the Republic of Slovenia. Its tasks relate to public archival material and documentation created by government agencies and other public institutions that are established and financed by the state and that operate nation-wide. The ARS also preserves private records and, through the Slovene Film Archives, film archival material for the entire country. It maintains a central register of public records kept in Slovenia, a register of foreign records concerning Slovenia and Slovenes and a register of public symbols, coats of arms, flags, seals and stamps of national significance. As an administrative institution within the organisational structure of the Ministry of Culture, the ARS’s professional and administrative activities also involve the preservation of records significant to the Republic of Slovenia, and other tasks defined by the Minister of Culture and the Ministry of Culture. The ARS preserves public and private records in accordance with the Archives and Archival Institution Act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No 20/97). Protection is granted to all confidential data contained in the public records (such as state, official, military, business and occupational data), as well as personal data and data referring to the privacy of individuals. Private records are preserved according to the instructions of private donors.

The professional tasks of the ARS also include publishing archival sources kept in the ARS and in foreign archives that are significant to the history of Slovenia and Slovenes and making records available for use. The ARS participates in public information systems and on the Internet with a computerised database of its archived materials. Its records are available for use in the ARS research rooms. The ARS also engages in cultural and educational activities and has various publications, including the in-house bulletin Obvestila (News). It also co-operates in preparing the Arhivi Journal, a joint publication of the ARS and the Archival Association of Slovenia (AAS). Since the beginning of 1992 the ARS has been a Category A Member of the International Council on Archives (ICA) and since 2001 a member of ICA’s European section EURBICA. Since 2000 it has also been involved in the EU’s European Bureau of National Archivists (EBNA). ARS co-operated in the MOSAIC project and 1997-2002 with Professor Christopher Clarkson of Oxford University, UK, who led workshops on book conservation.

Apart from Gruber Palace, a precious art historical building with a refined Baroque interior, the Archives has two branches with reading rooms, three additional branches in Ljubljana (at 5 Cankarjeva cesta, 48 Dunajska cesta and 12 Leskovškova cesta) where the archival material is stored, while the Slovene Film Archives are partly stored at the underground storehouse at Gotenica in the Kočevje region. ARS branch units are located at ARS - Kongresni trg Branch Unit, Ljubljana and ARS - Linhartova cesta Branch Unit, Ljubljana.

ARS is a independent public institution structured into 6 organisational units, which are:

I. General Services Office

II. Technical Services Office

III.Division of Records Preservation, which comprises:

• Department of Information, Documentation and Records Preservation

• Department of Government Administration Records after 1945

• Department I (former Historical Archives of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Slovenia and part of the Archives of the former Ministry of Internal Affairs)

• Department II (former Archives of the Institute of the History of the Labour Movement; since 1989, the Institute of Contemporary History)

IV. Division; Slovene Film Archives

V. Division; Centre for Preservation and Conservation of Records

VI. Division: Archival Centre for Professional Development

ARS is funded by the Republic of Slovenia on the basis of permanent budgets.

Listine Jezuitskega kolegija v Ljubljani Triindvajset listin Jezuitskega kolegija v Ljubljani je bilo vrnjenih v Republiko Slovenijo 19. maja 1978 ob tretji predaji arhivskega gradiva Republike Avstrije Socialistični federativni republiki Jugoslaviji.

Prevzete so bile na podlagi Arhivskega sporazuma med Republiko Avstrijo in Kraljevino SHS iz leta 1923 in Protokola med FLRJ in Republiko Avstrijo iz leta 1958. Do predaje so bile hranjene v Hišnem, Dvornem in Državnem arhivu na Dunaju (Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv). Po prevzemu s strani tedanjega Arhiva Socialistične Republike Slovenije so bile »jezuitske listine« uvrščene v Zbirko listin (AS 1063), v serijo listin, vrnjenih iz Avstije ter v podserijo samostanskih listin. Leta 2000 sta dr. France Martin Dolinar in Jože Škofljanec izdelala inventurni popis celotne Zbirke listin, med drugim tudi za listine Jezuitskega kolegija v Ljubljani. Vseboval je signaturo, izstavitelja, prejemnika, opombo, število pečatov, prejšnjo signaturo in morebitni regest. Leta 2004 pa je Jure Volčjak izdelal Začani inventar listin Jezuitskega kolegija v Ljubljani.Poleg številnih prepisov ustanovnih listin vsebinsko večina listin obravnava posestno stanje jezuitskega kolegija, še zlasti posest v okolici nekdanje kartuzije Pleterje. Prevladujejo originalne pergamentne listine, nekaj pa je tudi listin, pisanih na papir.