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> From: Flynn, Sarah [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 4:29 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: A2A Update, December 2000
>
> With apologies for any inconvenience caused by cross posting.
> sjaf
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> A2A Update, December 2000
>
> Preparation for A2A catalogue retroconversion projects continues; five A2A
> consortia have now submitted applications to the Heritage Lottery Fund,
> and
> all funding bids will be completed by the end of this month.
>
> The Eastern Region is preparing a funding application for a project on
> Landscape and Archives, aiming to convert to electronic form around 19,600
> catalogue pages for archives illuminating the development of the urban and
> rural landscapes of Eastern England - a region stretching from the
> outskirts
> of London to the Wash. The archives represented include maps, photographs
> and sale catalogues; the archives of architects, builders and estate
> agents,
> of local authorities and great estates; transport archives; and the
> records
> of enclosure and drainage. The project thus meshes with other A2A
> initiatives, such as From Landlord to Labourer in the South East Region
> and
> the user-led TRAP project for railway archives.
>
> In the North East Region the A2A focus is on industrial heritage. Under
> the
> Picks and Pistons project, Teesside Archives, Tyne and Wear Archives
> Service
> and Northumberland Record Office intend to convert about 12,500 pages of
> catalogues of archives of engineering, iron and steel manufacture,
> shipbuilding and mining concerns; of railway and utility records; and of a
> variety of commercial and business archives ranging from retailers to boot
> and shoe manufacturers. The consortium's funding bid also covers hardware
> and the installation of internet connections in each participating office,
> so that all the A2A finding aids will be easily accessible in the North
> East.
>
> A2A is a step towards a virtual national archives catalogue for England
> and
> will make available 8 million catalogue entries for archives dating from
> the
> twelfth to the twentieth centuries and held in national, local and
> specialist archives repositories on the www by March 2002. For more
> details
> on this retroconversion initiative, see
> <http://www.pro.gov.uk/archives/A2A/default.htm> or email
> <[log in to unmask]>.
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> Sarah J A Flynn
> Regional Liaison Co-Ordinator, A2A
> Public Record Office
> Kew
> Richmond
> Surrey TW9 4DU
>
> Tel (direct line): 020 8392 5328
> Fax: 020 8878 8905
> Email: [log in to unmask]
> www: http://www.pro.gov.uk/archives/A2A/default.htm
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