Bookings are open for the 2014 ARA Conference, which takes place in Newcastle from 27 to 29 August. The theme is: ‘Survival of the fittest: strengths, skills and priorities for 2014 and beyond’.
You can see the latest programme – keep in touch as more is added all the time - and book online at www.archives.org.uk
An early bird booking discount is available until 21 April.
Caroline Brown, Chair of the Conference Committee says:
‘We’re delighted to announce that Rick Prelinger will be a keynote speaker at the conference. Rick is an archivist, writer and filmmaker, founder of the Prelinger Archives and an Internet Archive board member. Rick’s interests are in personal and institutional record keeping, access to the cultural record, media and social change, digital and participatory archives and cinema and public history.
‘The following quotations demonstrate how much Rick has to say on the theme of our conference that is of relevance to archivists, records managers and conservators.
• ‘Access means making it as simple and inexpensive for anyone, anywhere, anytime to access copies of works … I think we should define access expansively and generously ’
• ‘I think we’re not being Utopian enough, we are reactive. We react to things that people do in other fields’
• ‘I don’t see us coming to terms with technology. This is not a critical statement, it is a wake-up call’
• 'I realize I am stating the obvious but I’m not sure that everybody in the world realises that wonderful and unpredictable things happen when ordinary people are given access to primary materials’
‘Rick’s understanding of the importance of what we do and his belief in the need for us to be forward thinking and creative in our responses to change suggests his keynote will be provocative, thought provoking and inspiring.’
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