From Watt to Waves

**CANCELLED**

It is with much regret that the organisers have had to cancel the above conference scheduled for Fri 30 October due to speaker illness. It is hoped that it can be rescheduled sometime in 2010.

**CANCELLED**



The Business Archives Council of Scotland, in collaboration with the University of Glasgow's Centre for Business History in Scotland, the Ballast Trust and the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland are pleased to present this one-day conference on Scottish engineering.

The conference will take place on Friday 30 October 2009 at the Clydeport Building, Robertson Street, Glasgow between 1000 and 1600.

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The programme will include:

• Documenting Scottish Engineering, Prof. Tony Slaven, Prof. Ray Stokes & Lesley Richmond
• W J Macquorn Rankine & the business of 'engineering science' in Glasgow, Dr. Ben Marsden
• Becoming the workshop of the world, Prof. Michael Moss
• Financing engineering innovation before 1930, Alan Cameron
• Clydebuilt: Losing the legend, Prof. Tony Slaven
• Barr & Stroud, Dr. Stephen Sambrook
• British Aluminium Company, Dr. Andrew Perchard
• Foreign Investment: Electronics and engineering since 1945, Dr. Duncan Ross
• The dynamics of engineering obstetric ultrasound, Dr. Malcolm Nicolson and John Fleming
• Marine engineering: Power from waves, Dr. David Kaye, Aquamarine Power

Cost: £25 for BACS / IESIS members, £30 for non-members. The non-members fee includes a one-year membership of the BACS. A buffet lunch is included.  A small number of free places for students and the unwaged are available on a first-come basis.

Further details and a booking form can be found at: http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/archives/bacs/annualconference/

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After the focus groups

Thank you to everyone who took part in the recent focus groups regarding the strategy. Kiara and I learned a huge amount about the current perceptions as to the state of business archives in Scotland and individuals experience of them. Importantly, you gave us lots of ideas for potential action points that can form part of the strategy so that it does what you want it to do.

We have now started to collate all the information from the groups and are getting down to devising the strategy. We hope to have a draft in the next few weeks which then be put out to wider consultation so do watch this space!

In the mean time, why not leave your comments on what business archives mean to you at the following post?

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