Abm-Utvikling

The Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority (ABM-utvikling) is an advisory and executive organisation for the Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs on the specialist fields of archives, libraries and museums. ABM-utvikling also work with archive, library and museum issues related to other ministries, notably the Ministry of Education and Research, where all university libraries and museums belong. Operating mostly at the strategic level, ABM-utvikling aims to put the constituent sectors and individual institutions in a better position to solve the tasks that relate to their specialist subjects and to find ways of meeting the new challenges presented by society. ABM-utvikling participates in all of the tasks that involve the archives, libraries and museums, but it also works across the boundaries of the specialist fields and handles cross-ministerial joint initiatives relating to the archive, library and museum sector. In short, the core idea is to strengthen each individual sector while also obtaining synergies between them.