Dear all
Further to this message, there are *still some places available* on this A2A
session at Bristol on Wednesday 7 May.  So do continue to pass the
information on to relevant people.
Best wishes
Sarah

>  -----Original Message-----
> From:         Stark, Sarah
> Sent: 28 March 2003 10:58
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      A2A Awareness Session for students and academics, Bristol, 7
> May
>
> Dear all
> The announcement below is for the benefit of postgraduate students and
> academics, so please pass it on to relevant visitors to your repositories.
> To book a place, researchers should contact Hannah Lowery at the
> University of Bristol - see address below - and not me - especially as I
> am about to go on 3 weeks' leave.
> Many thanks
> Sarah
> 28.iii.03
>
> ~~~~~
>
> A2A Awareness Session
> University of Bristol
> Wednesday 7 May 2003, 2.15pm - 4.15pm
>
> The A2A Central Team and University of Bristol Special Collections are
> organising a free A2A Awareness Session, to be held in the Arts and Social
> Sciences Library Training Room at the University of Bristol at 2.15pm on
> Wednesday 7 May.  This event is designed to bring the A2A website at
> www.a2a.pro.gov.uk to the attention of academic and postgraduate
> researchers, primarily in history.  It may also be of value for
> undergraduate history students and for researchers in other disciplines.
>
> The event will feature:
> - Presentation and demonstration of A2A by Sarah Stark, Regional Liaison
> Co-Ordinator, A2A
> - Talk by an academic historian on the use of A2A as a research tool
> - An opportunity for participants to explore A2A and its potential for
> their own research
>
> Information on other strands of the UK's national archives network will
> also be available at the event.
>
> A2A is led by 3 partners: the British Library; and the Historical
> Manuscripts Commission and the Public Record Office (about to come
> together to form the National Archives).  It allows researchers to search
> and browse catalogues of archives held in over 250 record offices,
> libraries and other local, specialist and national repositories across
> England, dating from the 900s to the present day.  The A2A database also
> links to contact details for repositories from the Historical Manuscripts
> Commission's ARCHON site. Together, this information makes it possible to
> search for references to archives and then arrange to see them or order
> copies with a few mouse clicks.
>
> The themes used to select catalogues for the A2A database encompass a wide
> range of subjects, including: commerce and industry; the development of
> great estates and the English landscape; the British in India; 19th and
> 20th century science and politics; and local government and administration
> in London and the English counties in the 16th-20th centuries.  They are
> useful resources for the study of political and international history,
> industrial history, and mediaeval landholding; and for work in many other
> fields.
>
> Places at the A2A Awareness Session will be limited to 18.  Academic
> researchers who wish to reserve a place should contact:
>
> Hannah Lowery, University of Bristol Special Collections, Arts and Social
> Sciences Library, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TJ
> Tel 0117 928 8014
> Fax 0117 925 5334
> Email [log in to unmask]
>
> Please pass this information on to any academic researchers who would be
> interested.
>
> * * * * * *
> Sarah J A Stark
> Regional Liaison Co-Ordinator, A2A
> Public Record Office
> Kew
> Richmond
> Surrey TW9 4DU
>
> Tel (direct line): 020 8392 5328
> Fax: 020 8392 5319
> Email: [log in to unmask]
> www: http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk
>
> * * * * * *
>
>


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