Dear Colleagues,
The NCA is following up the successful event we ran in the Palace of
Westminster in April by establishing a regular briefing report to MPs and
peers. This will go to 40 MPs and peers who asked to receive such briefings
following the event. We will also use it a little more widely with other
influential individuals and press contacts. The intention is to produce a
routine briefing document twice a year, with the potential for additional
issues if anything urgent comes up.
The routine briefings will be an update on what's happening in the archives
world, and will incorporate factual material, opinion pieces, and - where
necessary - calls for action from parliamentarians.
As part of the first issue, we are seeking short reports on projects and
activities in individual repositories that will give a flavour of some of
the more exciting and innovative things that are happening in archives, or
some of the problems being experienced (it won't all be good news!). I
would therefore be keen to hear from anyone who might be able to write
300-500 words on such a topic for inclusion in the briefing; the closing
date for submissions will be 25 October. I hope you will feel that this
would be a useful bit of profile-raising for your service or institution,
and that as many people as possible will feel moved to contribute. I cannot
promise to use all submissions, but we will include as many as possible.
Some suggestions about the types of topic that might be suitable are:
* exceptional new acquisitions or collections at risk
* cataloguing or conservation projects completed
* resources secured (or lost), e.g. new lottery awards
* lifelong learning initiatives
* social inclusion projects
* online service developments
* examples of partnership with other domains, the voluntary sector
etc.
If you are able to offer anything, please reply to me off-list. The
completed briefing will be placed on the NCA website and I will notify the
list when this has been done.
Nick Kingsley
Chairman, NCA
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