The London Museum Development team is now uploading recordings of its training sessions on its new YouTube channel. Courses already uploaded include ‘Introduction to Social Media Strategy: Creating a Strategy from Scratch’, with more to come soon.
Category: Advice
Resources for reopening Archives
The ‘Re-opening The National Archives’ webinar, which was streamed live last week, is now online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYcaUJL3gd4. This webinar provides information for colleagues in the archive sector on The National Archives’ own approach to re-opening. Each archive service needs to be guided by their own circumstances in relation to re-opening; in order to help with this, … Continue reading Resources for reopening Archives
Working from home
Recently on the Archives NRA jiscmail list the following list of online learning source and ideas for those working from home was shared. This might be of interest. Free Courses:• Connecting to Collections Care https://www.connectingtocollections.org/ has their webinars archived and available online - a lot of great information for a variety of institutions and collections, archives included. … Continue reading Working from home
Cold storage scheme
The National Conservation Service and Restore Plc are pleased to announce that the long awaited cold storage scheme, located at the NCS collaborative storage service at Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, is now ready to take collections. The cold store is intended for acetate plastic photographic sheets/strips (negatives and transparencies all formats including mounted slides), cine film … Continue reading Cold storage scheme
Community archive resources
For community archive related training materials, from multiple sources, collated into one easily-accessible central online resource, visit the following website: http://www.communityarchives.org.uk/resources
ARA conference videos
A selection of videos of around 20 sessions from the 2018 Archives and Records Associations annual conference in Glasgow and for the 2017 conference in Manchester can now be viewed online for free. Visit the website here to see the videos: http://conference.archives.org.uk/video
TNA Collections Development
The National Archives has just published Collections Development: Frameworks and Guidance on its website. This is a new modular guide which describes both the theory and practice of collections development: * the first section provides a theoretical framework for understanding why collections development is important with examples of different approaches and methodologies; … Continue reading TNA Collections Development
Funding available from the CFHS to support research
The Catholic Family History Society is keen to support the research into Catholics within the United Kingdom. The Society has limited funds available and is desirous to assist those interested in undertaking such research which will be of benefit to Catholic family historians. Small Research Awards will be made on an annual basis. For more information visit their … Continue reading Funding available from the CFHS to support research
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