Dear Sarah
I tried to find what the Letchworth Garden City Heritage Museum had
contributed (I live there) but, although it was listed under new
contributors, when I searched on 'Letchworth' it told me there were no
matches!
No hurry for a reply as I am off to Italy tonight, so am not desperate for
an answer! I guess it just takes time for all the technology to kick in?
Best wishes
Kate
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stark, Sarah" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 2:34 PM
Subject: A2A Update, August/September 2004
> With apologies for any inconvenience caused by cross-posting and for the
> delay to this announcement.
> sjas
>
> ~~~~~
> A2A Update, August/September 2004
>
> A2A was last updated at the end of August. 173 catalogues were added to
the
> database - the English strand of the UK archives network at
> http://www.a2a.org.uk - which now contains more than 7.05 million
catalogue
> entries, in 82,400 catalogue files, describing archives held in 357 record
> offices, libraries and other repositories throughout England.
>
> The new finding aids include the following:
>
> * catalogues of the records of Cable and Wireless, including corporate
> records, staff records, financial records, maritime engineering records,
> press cuttings and releases, marketing and other literature, photographs,
> film, video, and maps, held at the Cable and Wireless Archive at
Porthcurno
> in Cornwall;
> * catalogues of locally-relevant archives held by museums in
Hertfordshire,
> including Ashwell Village Museum, Baldock Museum and Local History
Society,
> and First Garden City Heritage Museum (in Letchworth);
> * catalogues of the 'main papers' of the House of Lords (records brought
to
> the attention of peers during their sittings in Parliament) from 1497 to
the
> eighteenth century, contributed by the House of Lords Record Office - the
> Parliamentary Archives - through the self-funded Parliamentary Archives:
> Main Papers project;
> * catalogues of manuscripts held at Lambeth Palace Library, created by a
> wide range of individuals and organisations within and outside the Church
of
> England, relating both to ecclesiastical history and to other subjects
such
> as architectural, colonial, political and social history, and dating from
> the 9th century to the present day, contributed through the self-funded
> Church, State and People project;
> * catalogues of a variety of church and other archives held by the
archives
> services of Cheshire and Chester, Cumbria, Lancashire and Liverpool,
> contributed by the North West regional project Mills, Mansions and Corner
> Shops;
> * and descriptions of records of individual insurance policies issued by
the
> Sun Fire Office, notably in the later 1820s, held at the Guildhall
Library -
> prepared for A2A by the user-led A Place in the Sun project.
>
> Work is continuing on new A2A projects; staff are now in post and starting
> work on new cataloguing projects including Musical Notes at the Royal
> Academy of Music, Images of Suffolk at Suffolk Record Office, and
Experience
> the Home Front at the Second World War Experience Centre in Leeds; and on
> retroconversion projects including Hidden Talent at Hertfordshire Record
> Office and Sussex Parish Chest for the archives services of West and East
> Sussex. Startup training for such new projects is being arranged by the
A2A
> Central Team, and several sessions have now been held.
>
> Finally, A2A has now been searched 4.2 million times since launch, with
9.6
> million catalogue downloads as a result.
>
> A2A is the English strand of the UK archives network; its database at
> http://www.a2a.org.uk already contains the electronic equivalent of over
> 700,000 catalogue pages describing archives held across England in
national,
> local and specialist repositories and dating from the 700s to the present
> day. The A2A programme will make a further 150,000 catalogue pages
> available on the web by July 2005.
>
> * * * * * *
> Sarah J A Stark
> Regional Liaison Co-Ordinator, A2A
> The National Archives
> Kew
> Richmond
> Surrey TW9 4DU
>
> Tel (direct line): 020 8392 5328
> Fax: 020 8487 9211
> Email: [log in to unmask]
> www: http://www.a2a.org.uk
>
> See also http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives/a2a ...
>
> * * * * * *
>
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