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Survey result:
66% of people look after business archives, 16% own a collection of business archives, 33% use business archives and we had no responses from people who created business archives.
The Business Archives Council is holding its annual conference at The National Archives at Kew today. The theme is "delivering results - collaboration and exploitation of business archives". The full conference programme is available here.
The conference will be an opportunity to discuss the implementation of the English and Welsh National Strategy for Business Archives and how to take the strategy forward. David is attending so he will be able to ensure that opportunities for the Scottish Strategy to work with initiatives in England and Wales are identified so we can act on them and incorporate them into our action plan.
We are hoping to be able to put the draft Scottish Strategy out for general consultation shortly so keep checking the blog for news.
North Lanarkshire Archives will be holding a series of events this week relating to their business archives (16-20
November) as part of the Archives Awareness campaign 2009.
Monday 16th November
All day exhibition featuring photographs, adverts, staff records and reminiscences from the Archive's industrial and business collections
10:00-10:30 Tour of the Archives
14:30-15:00 Tour of the Archives
Tuesday 17th November
All day exhibition
17:30-18:00 Tour of the Archives
18:00-19:00 Talk 'Building North Lanarkshire' - discover North Lanarkshire's rich industrial past
Wednesday 18th November
All day exhibition
14:15-14:45 Tour of the Archives
15:00-16:00 Workshop:'Taking care of your old photographs and papers' - advice on the preservation of your own archive items
Thursday 19th November
All day exhibition
10:00-10:30 Tour of the Archives
17:30-18:00 Tour of the Archives
18:00-19:00 Talk: 'Industrial records and you' - using industrial and business records to explore your family history
Friday 20th November
All day exhibition
10:00-14:00 Drop in session 'Ask the Archives'
All events are free and will be held at:
North Lanarkshire Council Archives,
10 Kelvin Road,
Cumbernauld,
G67 2BA.
Please contact Jo Dodd for more details:
doddj@northlan.gov.uk
tel: 01236 638 984
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.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?
