Dear all,
REMINDER!!!
Please find below details of the forthcoming training event, for which
places are still available. BOOK NOW!!
Charlotte Berry
SoA SW training officer
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Society of Archivists: Southwest Region training event
'Managing information in a digital and legislative age': best practice
overview and refresher workshop
DORSET HISTORY CENTRE, DORCHESTER, Fri 16 March 2007
Target audience:
• Newly qualified archivists and records managers wanting to acquire an
overview of best practice and recent developments in these areas
• Practising archivists and records managers wanting to refresh existing
knowledge and to benefit from established best practice in the sectors
• Practising archivists and records managers planning on implementing or
obtaining more information on EDRM systems within a Local Authority
Aims:
• To gain an overview of how DP and FOI legislation are being approached
in practice in the archive and records management sectors
• To gain an overview of the basic issues behind digital preservation
• To gain an overview of recent developments relating to digital records
and how these are being introduced in practice into Local Authorities
(including contributions from three leading Local Authorities currently
deploying EDRM systems)
Chair:
Hugh Jaques, County Archivist, Dorset
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Programme
1000-1030 Registration and coffee/tea
1030-1100 Session One: Legal compliance: an overview
Claire Skinner, Principal Archivist, Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office
1100-1145 Session Two: Data Protection and FOI in practice
David Wilson, Dorset County Council, Data Protection Act Officer, and
Richard Kirby, Dorset County Council, Records Management, Data Protection
Act and Freedom of Information Manager
1145-1230 Session Three: Developing a Corporate File Plan
David Reeve, Records Manager, Dorset County Council
1230-1245 Q&As, discussion and roundup
1245-1330 Lunch
1330-1445 Session Four: Deployment of EDRM systems in Dorset,
Gloucestershire and Cornwall
David Reeve, Records Manager, Dorset County Council
Nigel Wratten, Head of Information Management Service, Gloucestershire
County Council
Pam O'Hanlon, Enterprise Information Manager, Cornwall County Council
1445-1530 Session Five: Digital preservation: current issues and debate
Ed Pinsent, University of London Computer Centre
1530-1545 Coffee/tea
1545-1630 Session Six:
Discussion session (in groups with feedback); Q&As; close
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Booking information:
Course fee (SoA member) £35.00
Course fee (non-SoA member) £45.00
NB Many thanks to MLA Southwest for providing sponsorship for this event,
therefore minimising the delegate course fee.
To book, please use the online booking form available on the SoA website.
See under 'Downloads' on the homepage at www.archives.org.uk
Email this form to [log in to unmask] or post a print copy to the
Society office at:
Society of Archivists
Prioryfield House
20 Canon Street
Taunton
TA1 1SW
Full details will then be sent out to you.
Further information:
Please contact the SoA SW regional training officers Charlotte Berry
([log in to unmask]) and Daniel Williams
([log in to unmask]) if you require any further information
about this training event.
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Charlotte Berry
Archivist
Special Collections
Old Library
University of Exeter
Prince of Wales Road
EXETER EX4 4SB
UK
Tel: 01392 263879 (direct) or 01392 262096
Fax: 01392 263871
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