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At the present time, the Masaryk University Archives keep 25 official funds, i.e. archives originating from activities performed by university-wide institutes, faculties and other university institutions; 94 personal funds of academics (written collections); and 41 archive funds of associations, academic associations and social organisations, the work of which is/was connected to Masaryk University. Besides complete archive documentation, the Archives keep a whole range of collections: collections of photographs and historical items, portraits of MU Rectors, medals, etc.

Study documents and papers issued at MU faculties form a substantial part of new additions to the Archives. The materials are gradually being made accessible on computer and registers. After being transformed from the Comenius University in Bratislava (with the approval of the Slovak Archives Board), written documents of the disestablished MU Faculty of Pharmacy were ordered and equipped with inventories by the staff of the Masaryk University Archives. The processing of extensive personal archives of Josef Macurek, Professor of the History of Central, East and Southeast Europe and of Josef
Sajner, historian of medicinal sciences, was completed. The number of research workers and academics visiting the Archives is growing. The Archives offer copy services of archive materials and are able to act as an intermediary in the lending of materials from other Czech archives. The main research and publishing activities of Archive staff concentrate on those periods in the history of Masaryk University which have yet to be properly processed: the Second World War and the post–war period. Outcomes of this research are in print and presented at academic conferences. In the framework of an international project co-ordinated by Freiburg University, the Archives processed a study titled ”Professors of Masaryk University between 1938 and 1948”.

The Archives are represented on the Academic Archives Board of the Ministry of the Interior, the board of the Society for the History of Science and Technology, and the boards of editors of a whole range of professional and cultural journals.

With regard to the administrative function of the MU Archives, they perform a wide range of administrative functions: the issuing of certificates of study, diploma duplicates, school certificates, exam records and study plans. The number of the documents issued by Archive staff has doubled in recent years. The Archives also administrate educational programmes created by the disestablished Audio–visual Centre of Masaryk University: Archive staff organise the distribution and sale of these programmes.