tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71370826869981487562024-03-10T02:45:50.688+00:00Business Archives ScotlandArchivist (Ballast Trust)http://www.blogger.com/profile/08734512643400303447noreply@blogger.comBlogger176125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137082686998148756.post-54203865395763335842013-07-12T12:06:00.001+01:002013-07-12T12:06:24.750+01:00Meet the Archivists 2013<br />
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On Friday 20th September, a FREE workshop to encourage students and academic researchers to make the most of Business Archives will be held at Evolution House, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh.<br />
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This is the 2nd Meet the Archivists event that the <a href="http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/archives/bacs/" target="_blank">Business Archives Council of Scotland</a>, the <a href="http://scottisharchives.org.uk/" target="_blank">Scottish Council on Archives</a> have organised and it aims to bring together artists and archivists to discuss and explore with students how business archive collections can be used for their research.<br />
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This year the focus is on creative and design use of business archives. So the event is aimed at college of art students, architectural and design students/academics but all are welcome.<br />
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We will have speakers that include artists and archivists discussing interesting and creative projects based on business archives like the <a href="http://digital.nls.uk/bartholomew/">Bartholomew Archive</a> at NLS, the <a href="http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/archives/collections/business/features/stoddard/">Stoddard-Templeton Archive</a> at GUAS plus discussions by archivists from both <a href="http://ecacollections.tumblr.com/">Edinburgh College of Art</a> and <a href="http://www.gsa.ac.uk/about-gsa/library-learning-resources/archives-collections-centre/">Glasgow School of Art</a> and the <a href="http://www.tex.hw.ac.uk/about/archive.htm">Textile Archive at Heriot-Watt University</a> on how their collections act as a source of creative inspiration.<br />
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You can find out more and register for the event via <a href="http://meetthearchivists.eventbrite.co.uk/" target="_blank">eventbrite</a>.<br />
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This is a <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/workingarchive">Working Archive</a> event and you can find out more about the campaign <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/workingarchive">here</a>.<br />
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<br />Archivist (Ballast Trust)http://www.blogger.com/profile/08734512643400303447noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137082686998148756.post-72200533584103457992013-06-28T15:53:00.001+01:002013-06-28T15:53:19.308+01:00Extraordinary working livesTo support <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/workingarchive" target="_blank">The Working Archive</a> campaign, we have recently launched a <a href="http://workingarchive.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">blog</a> to complement the web pages we have on the Scottish Council on Archives <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/workingarchive" target="_blank">website</a>.<br />
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The blog will celebrate and share unique stories of Scot's working lives from archive collections held across Scotland in archives, museums or personal collections.</div>
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Do you have an extraordinary story? Please contact the <a href="mailto:contact@scottisharchives.org.uk" target="_blank">SCA</a> or <a href="mailto:Kiara.King@glasgow.ac.uk" target="_blank">Kiara</a> if you would like to contribute to the blog.</div>
Archivist (Ballast Trust)http://www.blogger.com/profile/08734512643400303447noreply@blogger.com151tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137082686998148756.post-19788207977753357272013-04-25T10:37:00.000+01:002013-04-25T10:37:41.534+01:00Case Study: Supporting Business in your Community<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">
I'm very pleased to be able to blog about our first bi-lingual case study from <a href="http://www.tasglann.org.uk/gd" target="_blank">Tasglann nan Eilean Siar</a> (<a href="http://www.tasglann.org.uk/en" target="_blank">Hebridean Archives</a>) and the <a href="http://www.harristweed.org/" target="_blank">Harris Tweed Authority</a>. <br />
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The Tasglann has been working with business and industry in the Outer Hebrides to advise and assist them in managing their records. Their aim is to help businesses to make better use of a key asset: their records, be it for administrative purposes, marketing, or legal defence. <br />
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The case study discusses how the Tasglann worked with the Harris Tweed Authority to undertake a full survey of their archive records, uncovering and listing numerous case files relating to trademark defence. Following the survey, these files are now accessible and easy to locate allowing the Authority to utilise them more easily in supporting their ongoing work and marketing.</div>
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The full case study is available in <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/business/business_case_studies/nsbas-case-study-handout-tasglann-english.pdf" target="_blank">English</a> and <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/business/business_case_studies/nsbas-case-study-handout-tasglann-gaelic.pdf" target="_blank">Gaelic </a>and the others can be found <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/projects/business_archives/case_studies/scottish_case_studies" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
Archivist (Ballast Trust)http://www.blogger.com/profile/08734512643400303447noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137082686998148756.post-86570911759661034982013-04-05T12:05:00.000+01:002013-04-05T12:05:00.461+01:00The Working Archive<a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/workingarchive" target="_blank">The Working Archive</a> is a year-long archive awareness campaign for Scotland that is launching today. <br />
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Championed by the <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/" target="_blank">Scottish Council on Archives</a>, to support the ongoing <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/businessarchives" target="_blank">National Strategy for Business Archives in Scotland</a>, the campaign aims to encourage archives, their users and the public at large to celebrate the unique stories behind individual Scottish businesses; the records of products that were produced or manufactured in Scotland and exported around the world; and the archival legacy of working Scots of all kinds - whether in business, farming, healthcare, education, the church or government. <br />
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The Working Archive campaign will celebrate the people behind the records - whether the workers and staff of businesses, the communities within which businesses are based or trade or the archivists and curators who work to preserve these records today. <br />
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We want archivists and archives from all over Scotland to get involved and there are a number of different ways you can do so - find out more about them <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/discover/awareness/workingarchive/participate" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<li>Contribute right away by <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/discover/awareness/workingarchive/contact" target="_blank">emailing us</a> stories about working lives from your archive or about how you are making your collections work for their owners and users. We’ll showcase some of these in a campaign blog during 2013-14. </li>
<li>Send us images about Scotland’s working past for inclusion in our <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/discover/awareness/workingarchive/gallery" target="_blank">gallery</a>. Send images to the <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/discover/awareness/workingarchive/contact" target="_blank">SCA</a> along with a short caption and a note of the provenance as it should appear – and we’ll do the rest. </li>
<li>If you are on flickr and have suitable images that reflect Scotland's working past uploaded there then simply add the tag "<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/workingarchive/" target="_blank">working archive</a>" to them and they'll appear like this:</li>
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Our first <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/business/business_case_studies/nsbas_case_study_handout_rbs_taster_week.pdf" target="_blank">new case study</a> in 2013 is from the <a href="http://heritagearchives.rbs.com/wiki/Welcome_to_RBS_heritage_online">Royal Bank of Scotland Group Archives</a>. It explains how they issued an open invitation to students at Edinburgh University to take part in week-long work experience placements in their archive that included taught sessions alongside practical work experience.<br />
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It was very succesful and popular with students and in Autumn 2012 was awarded <a href="http://www.archives.org.uk/campaigns/aps-pace-setters.html">Archive Pace Setter</a> status in recognition of its creative approach to outreach and skills sharing.<br />
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The full case study is available <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/business/business_case_studies/nsbas_case_study_handout_rbs_taster_week.pdf" target="_blank">here</a> and there others can be found <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/projects/business_archives/case_studies/scottish_case_studies" target="_blank">here</a>.BAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18172182258811760403noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137082686998148756.post-12847428611077956802013-02-25T15:27:00.001+00:002013-02-25T15:27:49.440+00:002012 Implementation Review2012 marked the second year of implementation for the <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/projects/business_archives/national_strategy">National Strategy for Business Archives in Scotland</a>. To celebrate this we have prepared the following infographic to highlight some of our achievements in our second year.<br />
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You can download a pdf version of of the <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/business/nsbas_papers/nsbas_year_2_infographic_final.pdf" target="_blank">2012 Review</a> to see it in more detail. The image is taken from the records of <a href="http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb248-gd323/3">Scotts Shipbuilding Co. Ltd</a> (GD323/3/12/6) held by <a href="http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/archives/">Glasgow University Archive Services</a> under charge and superintendence of the <a href="http://www.nas.gov.uk/">Keeper of the Records of Scotland</a>.<br />
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<li>The <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/projects/business_archives/resources" target="_blank">resources</a> that we have created and/or published can be found in the <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/projects/business_archives/resources">resources</a> section of the website.</li>
<li>The results of the <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/projects/business_archives/data_mapping_project_and_collections">Data Mapping Project</a> were published in August 2012 and you can read the report with detailed information about the project, its methodology, and links to online resource <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/projects/business_archives/data_mapping_project_and_collections">here</a>.</li>
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Our <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/business/nsbas_papers/nsbas_year_3_action_plan.pdf">Year 3 Action Plan</a> is also now available having been agreed at the January implementation group meeting.BAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18172182258811760403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137082686998148756.post-57645806316070529612013-01-23T11:26:00.000+00:002013-01-23T11:26:12.476+00:00Conference: The Beating Heart of London’s Business<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
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On the 12th and 13th April 2013 a two-day conference, organised by The Archives and Artefacts Study Network (A2SN) and supported by the <a href="http://www.postalhistory.org.uk/php/index.php" target="_blank">Postal History Society</a>, the <a href="http://www.businessarchivescouncil.org.uk/" target="_blank">Business Archives Council</a> and the <a href="http://www.hmrs.org.uk/" target="_blank">Historical Model Railway Society</a> will take place in London.</div>
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This is the second such conference following last year's event in Derby and both seek to explore and expand co-operation between volunteer-led societies involved in business history fields and the academics, archivists and museum professionals working in the same areas. The events aim to prompt an awareness of what these various groups are doing, and to start a dialogue between the enthusiast and academic which may lead to co-operation in preserving and using collections, and furthering our understanding of the past and its relevance to the future. </div>
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London, as a venue for the second conference, has been facilitated by John Scott, Chairman of the Culture, Heritage & Libraries Committee of the <a href="http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank">City of London Corporation</a>, who is one of our speakers. The event is hosted by <a href="http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/visiting-the-city/archives-and-city-history/london-metropolitan-archives/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank">London Metropolitan Archives</a> and <a href="http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Docklands/" target="_blank">Museum of London Docklands</a> and themes of trade and commerce are drawn from holdings in their care. London is a world-renowned centre for business, a place where the means of communication, written, electronic and physical, come together. It is not surprising therefore to find a vast array of business archives held in archival repositories in and around the City. Whatever your passion, we aim to give you new opportunities, avenues of exploration and fresh insights. <br />
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To find out more please download the <a href="http://www.businessarchivescouncil.org.uk/materials/finalbeatingheartflyer.pdf" target="_blank">flyer</a> with a booking form. <a href="http://www.businessarchivescouncil.org.uk/materials/aaaaderbyworkshopproceedings.pdf" target="_blank">Proceedings</a> of last year’s event are also available to download. Archivist (Ballast Trust)http://www.blogger.com/profile/08734512643400303447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137082686998148756.post-25079089052694823282012-12-24T09:30:00.000+00:002012-12-24T09:30:03.140+00:00Businesses at Christmas<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Before finishing up for Christmas, I wanted to share some of the lovely bits and bobs that business archive collections have been sharing in the last couple of weeks.<br />
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The Christmas posters from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/postalheritage/sets/72157632174438299/" target="_blank">British Postal Museum and Archive</a> are as always great, including this example above. They also have a series of <a href="http://postalheritage.org.uk/page/podcast/" target="_blank">podcasts</a>, that include one on the <a href="http://postalheritage.org.uk/uploads/1843_Christmas_card_0.jpg?video=/uploads/24_Anna_Flood.mp3" target="_blank">history of Christmas cards</a>.<br />
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The Design Archives at the University of Brighton exists to promote the study of design and is an internationally significant scholarly resource focusing on British design and global design organisations in the 20th century. They have a set up on Flickr - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/35368374@N04/sets/72157632272185067/" target="_blank">Season's Greetings from the Design Archives</a>.<br />
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/railwaymuseum" target="_blank">National Railway Museum</a> has been sharing images on <a href="https://twitter.com/railwaymuseum" target="_blank">twitter</a>, including this one of <a href="http://ow.ly/i/1go1y" target="_blank">GNR Christmas Excursions</a>. As has <a href="https://twitter.com/MandSHeritage" target="_blank">M&S Heritage</a>, the <a href="https://twitter.com/GuardianArchive" target="_blank">Guardian Archive</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/coke_archives" target="_blank">Coca-Cola Archives</a>. The <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rbsarchives" target="_blank">Royal Bank of Scotland Group Archives</a> have been doing the same thing over on their <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rbsarchives" target="_blank">facebook</a>.<br />
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We've squeezed in another <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/business/business_case_studies/nsbas_case_study_handout_dundee_whaling.pdf" target="_blank">new case study</a> on the <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/businessarchives" target="_blank">Scottish Business Archives</a> website before the end of the year. This is a really interesting one about how archives, museums and libraries with collections relating to <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/business/business_case_studies/nsbas_case_study_handout_dundee_whaling.pdf" target="_blank">Dundee's whaling history</a> have worked together to produce a resource that highlights the fantastic history of the industry.</div>
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The full case study is available <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/business/business_case_studies/nsbas_case_study_handout_dundee_whaling.pdf" target="_blank">here</a> and there others can be found <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/projects/business_archives/case_studies/scottish_case_studies" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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We've a few more drafted and ready to go in the New Year, so keep an eye out for them.Archivist (Ballast Trust)http://www.blogger.com/profile/08734512643400303447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137082686998148756.post-29227595050187597822012-12-19T12:01:00.000+00:002012-12-19T20:00:28.870+00:00Instruments of Power<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
Instruments of Power is a follow-on project by Paul Sillitoe from his PhD research at the University of Liverpool. The aim of that research was to develop new ways to make technical drawings more accessible for researchers, by making them more understandable for archivists. </div>
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The text below has been submitted by Paul, his new project will work with archivists and researchers to transform theoretical findings into practical outcomes. So he will be looking for archivists and researchers to act as consultees for the project.</div>
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Technical drawings graphically represent engineering and manufacturing designs better than any textual description. These potent instruments of power and innovative thought depict progress, process and product across British industry. </div>
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Yet they are under-valued, under-used and at-risk research resources - less likely than textual records to be selected as archives, or adequately described for researchers. Why? <br />
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As a second-career archivist, from an engineering background, I took reading technical drawings for granted. Yet as I began to manage archival cataloguing teams, I realised that many archivists could not understand them. Their predominantly arts-based backgrounds had not equipped them for this foreign technical language, whose graphical conventions differed across industries and time. </div>
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Consequently, many technical drawings, even if secured for archival preservation, remain uncatalogued and inaccessible to researchers. The archival record for Britain’s period of industrialisation is therefore unbalanced. </div>
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My hypothesis is that archivists do not need to understand a technical drawing in its entirety. They only need to be able to extract the information required for appraisal and cataloguing. </div>
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The aim of the PhD research was therefore to discover whether sufficient information could always be found within a technical drawing that was unrelated to its subject content. Such generic information, if identified and described, could form the basis for practical guidance to the understanding of technical drawings. </div>
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The PhD research statistically surveyed a sample of complex twentieth-century technical drawings. Individual concepts and characteristics were identified, and their frequencies of occurrence quantified. Thirty four concepts and characteristics were identified as almost always occurring within technical drawings, and having potential to be useful to understanding. </div>
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Forty further concepts and characteristics were identified as occurring less frequently within the sample. They have potential to be useful to understanding if they are found to occur more frequently in other samples of technical drawings. Archivist and researcher consultees are now required. Consultees are now sought to help assess the practical utility of these concepts and characteristics in understanding technical drawings. The consultation will be held principally online. Your views will contribute to published practical guidance to the understanding of technical drawings for archivists and researchers. </div>
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If you are interested in the project, then please contact Paul on <a href="mailto:paul@sillitoe-uk.net">paul@sillitoe-uk.net</a>Archivist (Ballast Trust)http://www.blogger.com/profile/08734512643400303447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137082686998148756.post-77415674498250691622012-12-14T14:27:00.000+00:002012-12-14T14:27:21.646+00:00Scotland's Industrial Souvenir<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
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“From Edinburgh’s breweries, brush makers, glue factories and ironmongers, to fish merchants in Aberdeen and confectioners and jute merchants in Dundee, these beautifully detailed advertisements conjure up the sights, sounds and smells of Scotland’s industrial heyday."</blockquote>
The BBC produced a lovely <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-20692434" target="_blank">gallery</a> of the images on their site yesterday, which is the second time they've include business archives on the site following the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-20617685" target="_blank">gallery</a> of <a href="http://digital.nls.uk/bartholomew/" target="_blank">Bartholomew Archive</a> last week.Archivist (Ballast Trust)http://www.blogger.com/profile/08734512643400303447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137082686998148756.post-51642825551994826282012-12-07T10:00:00.000+00:002012-12-07T10:00:08.969+00:00The Bartholomew Archive at NLS<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
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There are some amazing images in the exhibition, some particularly lovely ones that illustrate the role of women in work.<br />
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Find out more about the collection on their <a href="http://blogs.nls.uk/bartholomew/" target="_blank">blog</a> and <a href="http://digital.nls.uk/bartholomew/" target="_blank">website</a> and the BBC had some preview images up online yesterday <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-20617685" target="_blank">here</a>.Archivist (Ballast Trust)http://www.blogger.com/profile/08734512643400303447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137082686998148756.post-2720139070579323662012-12-06T15:23:00.003+00:002012-12-06T15:24:25.332+00:00Exhibition to celebrate The Dandy's 75th anniversary<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
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The <a href="http://www.dundee.ac.uk/museum/" target="_blank">University of Dundee Museum Services</a> have created an <a href="http://www.dundee.ac.uk/museum/exhibitions/comics/dandy/" target="_blank">exhibition</a> in their Lamb Gallery to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Dandy, the world’s third-longest running comic created by Dundee publishers DC Thomson. <br />
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On Saturday 8 December at 2pm there will be a special <a href="http://www.dundee.ac.uk/museum/exhibitions/comics/dandy/" target="_blank">event</a> to tie into this exhibiton. The event takes the form of an informative and engaging series of talks about The Dandy’s history and its future. The event takes place on Saturday at 2pm in the Baxter suite, room 1.36 (on the first floor of the Tower Building). The exhibition will be on show until 12 January (except when the University is closed for Christmas 23 December – 2 January). <br />
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As well as looking at the past and the great archive, the event will also look to the comic's future, giving an exclusive behind-the-scenes glimpse at the creation of the new Digital Dandy, with a discussion led by Dr Chris Murray of the School of Humanities, with contributions from former Dandy editor Morris Heggie, new Digital Dandy editor Craig Ferguson, Digital Production manager Mark Hunter, writer Dan McGachey, long-time DCT artist David Sutherland, and one of the artists who is very closely involved in the direction of the Digital Dandy, Stephen White. </div>
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The exhibition and launch have been created as part of an on-going partnership between <a href="http://www.dcthomson.co.uk/" target="_blank">DC Thomson & Co Ltd</a>, the University of Dundee Museum Services and the newly established Scottish Centre for Comics Studies based at the University. </div>
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Archivist (Ballast Trust)http://www.blogger.com/profile/08734512643400303447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137082686998148756.post-73206796827323292572012-11-29T20:34:00.000+00:002012-11-29T20:34:04.540+00:00Scottish Canals Heritage Strategy <a href="http://www.scottishcanals.co.uk/" target="_blank">Scottish Canals</a> have recently launched their <a href="http://www.scottishcanals.co.uk/history--heritage/draft-heritage-strategy/introduction" target="_blank">draft heritage strategy</a><br />
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They have a great collection of <a href="http://www.scottishcanals.co.uk/history--heritage/draft-heritage-strategy/5-year-plan/objectives/list-of-objectives/4-artefacts-and-archive" target="_blank">business archives</a> that are a key part of the heritage strategy and one of the aims is to: "improve understanding, condition of and access to Scottish Canals' artefacts and archive." But interestingly their strategy covers a huge range of types of heritage:<br />
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This strategy will cover all types of cultural heritage associated with Scottish Canals. As well as engineering structures, buildings and natural heritage, our estate includes archaeological sites, historical documents and artefacts. We also wish to safeguard and promote cultural heritage that is not physical, including traditions, craft skills, language, literature, knowledge and associations with past events and people.</blockquote>
The consultation will close on 14 January 2013, to submit your feedback click <a href="http://www.scottishcanals.co.uk/history--heritage/draft-heritage-strategy/your-feedback" target="_blank">here</a>.Archivist (Ballast Trust)http://www.blogger.com/profile/08734512643400303447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137082686998148756.post-58636563169057286232012-11-19T15:23:00.000+00:002012-11-19T15:25:18.244+00:00Meet the Archivists: a review<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody>
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We're very pleased with how our first Scottish ‘Meet the Archivists’ event went on the 9th November. This was a free event organised by the Business Archives Council of Scotland, the Scottish Council on Archives and the Centre of Business History to encourage students and academic researchers to make the most of business archive collections.
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Thank you to everyone who attended and contributed information to the day. There's going to be a proper write up of the day in the SCA's <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/news/magazine" target="_blank">Broadsheet</a> next month. A particular thanks to those who attended and have been kind enough to fill out our mini <a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RYSP5C7" target="_blank">survey</a> and say lots of nice things about the day which seems to have been very successful with everyone rating it either ‘excellent’ or ‘very good’. <br />
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“was a really useful and inspiring day”<br />
“Great atmosphere; great line up of interesting and knowledgeable speakers; sessions were at the right pace and information given at the right level; great to have the opportunity to discuss my research with archivists and to get some pointers; loved the goodie bag - and lunch.” <br />
"A really worthwhile training event. Thanks to all involved."<br />
<br />Archivist (Ballast Trust)http://www.blogger.com/profile/08734512643400303447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137082686998148756.post-24428512192783214932012-10-29T17:19:00.003+00:002012-11-19T15:25:18.238+00:00Meet the ArchivistsIn 10 days time, on Friday 9th November the first Scottish <a href="http://meetthearchivists.eventbrite.co.uk/" target="_blank">'Meet the Archivists'</a> event will take place at the University of Glasgow.<br />
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This FREE workshop aims to encourage students and academic researchers to make the most of Business Archives by bringing together academics and archivists to discuss and explore with students how business archive collections can be used for their research. You can find out more and register for the event via <a href="http://meetthearchivists.eventbrite.com/" target="_blank">eventbrite</a>.<br />
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This event has been organised by the <a href="http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/archives/bacs/" target="_blank">Business Archives Council of Scotland</a>, the <a href="http://www.scoarch.org.uk/notice-board/283" target="_blank">Scottish Council on Archives</a> and the <a href="http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/research/economicsocialhistory/businesshistory/" target="_blank">Centre of Business History</a>. It follows the pattern of successful events organised by the Business Archives Council in London for the last four years and an event held at Swansea University this year.
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There will be representatives from the following archives available to discuss their collections as well as information about many other business archive collections in Scotland and the UK:</div>
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<li>Marks and Spencer Company Archive </li>
<li>National Records of Scotland/National Register of Archives for Scotland </li>
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<li>Tasglann nan Eilean Siar (Hebridean Archives)</li>
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Archivist (Ballast Trust)http://www.blogger.com/profile/08734512643400303447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137082686998148756.post-90849185411154187532012-10-15T11:43:00.001+01:002012-10-15T11:45:44.665+01:00New SCA website<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
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The <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/" target="_blank">Scottish Council on Archives</a> have launched their new website today. As they are kind enough to host all the information and resources for the National Strategy for Business Archives in Scotland this means the links for information about <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/projects/business_archives" target="_blank">Business Archives</a> in Scotland have changed.</div>
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Archivist (Ballast Trust)http://www.blogger.com/profile/08734512643400303447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137082686998148756.post-46292122636470006012012-09-13T17:11:00.000+01:002012-09-13T17:11:00.123+01:00Jaguar's 90th anniversary<a href="http://www.jaguarheritage.org/" target="_blank">Jaguar Heritage</a> organised an event in cooperation with BAE Systems this month to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the foundation of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallow_Sidecar_Company" target="_blank">Swallow Sidecar Company</a> - Sir William Lyons' first business and the forerunner of today's Jaguar Cars Limited.<br />
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The event was a gathering of a rare collection of Jaguar cars at BAE's Warton site, for a ‘birthday surprise’ in the form of a flypast by a Eurofighter Typhoon.<br />
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From their website: <br />
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Hear experts talking about our extensive collections and view our exhibitions and fi lms. You’ll also get the chance to go behind-the-scenes to discover how we photograph, measure and draw industrial sites, and fi nd out how these unique images form an important record of Scotland’s industrial past and present.</blockquote>
View the programme <a href="http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/rcahms_media/files/news/rcahms_doors_open_day_2012.pdf">here</a>.Archivist (Ballast Trust)http://www.blogger.com/profile/08734512643400303447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137082686998148756.post-85796088736434761152012-08-14T16:18:00.003+01:002012-08-14T16:18:54.385+01:00Data Mapping Project ReportThe <a href="http://www.scoarch.org.uk/filegrab/documents/44589e926e6c4d727a9872d7f6ba1399/data-mapping-project-report-methodology.pdf" target="_blank">report and methodology</a> for the Data Mapping Project has been published on the <a href="http://www.scoarch.org.uk/projects/businessarchives/collection-mapping" target="_blank">SCA website</a>.
We are still experiementing with the best way to make the dataset of 6120 collections available online.<br />
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At the moment we have a draft <a href="https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?dsrcid=3487994" target="_blank">Google fusion table</a> which allows us to display parts of the data in different ways. For example, there is a map view of the collections by <a href="https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?viz=MAP&q=select+col10+from+1SZ32Twjywb8gvNzXIUb35IlToQet-R7Yma7nmm0&h=false&lat=58.11748364267241&lng=4.7307329999999865&z=4&t=1&l=col10" target="_blank">business location</a> and also <a href="https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?viz=MAP&q=select+col11+from+1SZ32Twjywb8gvNzXIUb35IlToQet-R7Yma7nmm0&h=false&lat=58.11748364267241&lng=4.7307329999999865&z=4&t=1&l=col11" target="_blank">repository location</a>.<br />
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Or this view which shows the connections between industry sectors and companies.
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<a href="http://www.scoarch.org.uk/_uploads/imgpool/ara-logo.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="66" src="http://www.scoarch.org.uk/_uploads/imgpool/ara-logo.jpeg" width="320" /></a>Many thanks to the <a href="http://www.archives.org.uk/" target="_blank">Archives and Records Association</a> for funding the first stage of this project.Archivist (Ballast Trust)http://www.blogger.com/profile/08734512643400303447noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137082686998148756.post-40186444362532882662012-08-10T12:22:00.000+01:002012-11-19T15:25:18.242+00:00Meet the Archivists Poster<div style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
We now have a <a href="http://www.scoarch.org.uk/filegrab/documents/2acc9de65e8be2e3225ff605f19b9c26/meet-the-archivists-poster.pdf" target="_blank">poster</a> for the <a href="http://businessarchivesscotland.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/meet-archivists-in-scotland.html" target="_blank">Meet the Archivists</a> event in November.</div>
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The Meet the Archivists event will take place on November 9th 2012. It is a FREE workshop to encourage students and academic researchers to make the most of Business Archives will be held at the University of Glasgow. It will bring together academics and archivists to discuss and explore with students how business archive collections can be used for their research. You can find out more and register for the event via <a href="http://meetthearchivists.eventbrite.com/" target="_blank">eventbrite</a>.</div>
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Please <a href="http://www.scoarch.org.uk/filegrab/documents/2acc9de65e8be2e3225ff605f19b9c26/meet-the-archivists-poster.pdf" target="_blank">download it</a> and share it with people.</div>Archivist (Ballast Trust)http://www.blogger.com/profile/08734512643400303447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137082686998148756.post-26671853355036802392012-07-25T14:03:00.005+01:002012-07-25T14:03:57.873+01:00Case Study: RBS and NLS UNESCO’s UK Memory of the World Register - business archives of national importanceSometimes business archives can tell a story of huge national importance. The records of the Company of Scotland are such a collection and were one of the first ten archival collections placed on <a href="http://www.unesco.org.uk/2010_uk_memory_of_the_world_register" target="_blank">UNESCO’s UK Memory of the World Register</a> in 2010.<br />
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The case study describes why these business records are of national importance and the benefits gained by UNESCO recognition of the Company of Scotland collections belonging to the <a href="http://rbs.com/" target="_blank">Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc</a> and the <a href="http://www.nls.uk/" target="_blank">National Library of Scotland</a>. <br />
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The full case study is available <a href="http://www.scoarch.org.uk/filegrab/documents/f9fbff81ba0e93d6260b32c792c9a700/nsbas-case-study-handout-unesco.pdf" target="_blank">here</a> and there others can be found <a href="http://www.scoarch.org.uk/projects/businessarchives/businesscasestudies" target="_blank">here</a>.Archivist (Ballast Trust)http://www.blogger.com/profile/08734512643400303447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137082686998148756.post-36871157389867202052012-07-25T13:46:00.000+01:002012-07-25T13:46:05.739+01:00Case study: John Murray Archive - celebrating the history of the bookThe John Murray archive is a treasure trove of over 200 years of the firm's publishing history as well as containing information about 7 generations of the Murray family. It contains stories of travel, adventure, passion and much more.<br />
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The case study describes how the business archive collection is used by a wide variety of researchers through the NLS' events, talks, online activities and education/outreach programs and demonstrates that business papers are essential and integral to understanding authors.<br />
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The full case study is available <a href="http://www.scoarch.org.uk/filegrab/documents/8b9dc05c5db142241fc5c0dec9269bf3/nsbas-case-study-handout-jma.pdf" target="_blank">here</a> and there others can be found <a href="http://www.scoarch.org.uk/projects/businessarchives/businesscasestudies" target="_blank">here</a>.Archivist (Ballast Trust)http://www.blogger.com/profile/08734512643400303447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137082686998148756.post-39306248450462357512012-07-25T12:42:00.004+01:002012-07-25T12:42:51.466+01:00New case studiesI'm pleased to say that we have some new <a href="http://www.scoarch.org.uk/projects/businessarchives/businesscasestudies" target="_blank">case studies</a> on the <a href="http://www.scoarch.org.uk/businessarchives" target="_blank">Business Archives in Scotland</a> website. <br />
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The two new ones feature the <a href="http://digital.nls.uk/jma/" target="_blank">John Murray Archive</a> and the importance of celebrating the history of the book and business archives of national importance from the <a href="http://heritagearchives.rbs.com/wiki/Welcome_to_RBS_heritage_online" target="_blank">The Royal Bank of Scotland</a> and <a href="http://www.nls.uk/" target="_blank">National Library of Scotland</a> entry into the <a href="http://www.unesco.org.uk/2010_uk_memory_of_the_world_register" target="_blank">UNESCO’s UK Memory of the World Register</a>.<br />
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I'll blog about each of them separately but in the meantime you can read them <a href="http://www.scoarch.org.uk/projects/businessarchives/businesscasestudies" target="_blank">here</a>. Archivist (Ballast Trust)http://www.blogger.com/profile/08734512643400303447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7137082686998148756.post-2543058196155694902012-07-18T15:33:00.001+01:002012-07-18T15:33:31.799+01:00Scottish Brewing Archive Association Conference<a href="http://www.scottishbrewingarchive.co.uk/wpimages/wp55834188_05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="160" src="http://www.scottishbrewingarchive.co.uk/wpimages/wp55834188_05.jpg" width="320" /></a>The <a href="http://www.scottishbrewingarchive.co.uk/" target="_blank">Scottish Brewing Archive Association</a> are holding their 2nd <a href="http://www.scottishbrewingarchive.co.uk/events.html" target="_blank">conference</a> this September in Glasgow.<br />
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The conference is titled "<b>A half and a hauf</b>" - a celebration of the links between brewing and
distilling in Scotland. The <a href="https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BzvmwNm2RvV4LVB4bU5obTk4aXM" target="_blank">programme</a>
can be viewed online along with a booking form and methods of payment <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzvmwNm2RvV4LVB4bU5obTk4aXM/edit" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Three experts from the industry will be giving presentations:<br />
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<li>Douglas Murray, Diageo plc - Brewing and distilling: a common heritage </li>
<li>Gordon Motion, The Edrington Group - Timber to tumbler: cask use in Scotch whisky </li>
<li>Stuart Cail, Harvieston Brewery - Some thoughts on producing wood aged beers </li>
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After the presentations delegates will have an opportunity to participate in a tutored
whisky and beer tasting and to chat with the speakers and SBAA committee members over
lunch. <br />
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The event will be held in the
<a href="http://teacherbuilding.theiet.org/about/history.cfm" target="_blank">Teachers Building</a>, St Enoch Square, Glasgow on 7th September 2012 and is open to anyone interested in the Scottish
brewing and distilling scene: beer and whisky enthusiasts, collectors, members of the
industry, historians, students studying brewing and marketing, etc.Archivist (Ballast Trust)http://www.blogger.com/profile/08734512643400303447noreply@blogger.com0