“Making your Archive Relevant to your Business”

Archives and Records Association (UK & Ireland)’s Section for Business Records Summer Seminar 2016
Thursday 23rd June 2016 British Motor Museum, Gaydon, Warwickshire

•	Are you an archive or records management professional wanting to learn how to ‘sell’ the value of your archive to your business owners and senior management?
•	Are you a company manager looking to develop the heritage, marketing, compliance, and wider value of your corporate archive for the business? 
•	Do you want to meet colleagues and archivists who have succeeded in doing all this, in an inspiring setting?
•	Do you want this for free?

The ARA's Section for Business Records is delighted to announce its first summer seminar.  This FREE event will be held on Thursday 23rd June at the British Motor Museum, Gaydon, Warwickshire, and will explore the theme of ‘Making your archive relevant to your business’. The day will include four speakers currently working in the business archive sector and a panel session. There will also be refreshments, lunch and a tour of the British Motor Museum.

Refreshments and lunch on the day will be provided free to all delegates, as will transport to and from Leamington Spa train station. 

This is a unique opportunity to hear, meet and learn from:

* Martyn Hollingsworth (Chief Programme Engineer, Jaguar Heritage)
‘The Missing Six’
Martyn will outline Jaguar Heritage’s painstaking efforts to build six ‘missing’ 1963 racing E-types using plans that had lain dormant within the Heritage Archive for over 50 years.

* Sophie Clapp (Company Archivist, Boots)
‘Creating a Commercial Culture: positioning archives as a multi-faceted business asset’
Sophie will explore the ways in which Boots Archives are used to support the company’s brand and inform strategic thinking.

* Charlie Whitehead (Heritage Officer (Archivist), Robert Welch Archive and Collections)
 ‘Connect the Dots: Making Sense of a Business Archive’
Heritage Officer for Robert Welch Designs Ltd, Charlie Whitehead will reflect on work to make a recently catalogued collection into an embedded company resource.

* Deirdre McParland (Senior Archivist, Electricity Supply Board Archive)
‘Shedding light on ESB Archives:  The newbie guide to leveraging your archive’
Deirdre will explore her journey in utilising her experience of working in a global brand archive to re-shaping the business archives of ESB.

* Mike Anson (Chair of the Business Archives Council) will lead a panel discussion to explore how we can put these ideas into action.
 
Travel Arrangements
The SBR are able to provide free transport for attendees between Leamington Spa train station and the British Motor Museum both in the morning and afternoon. If you wish to take advantage of this, you will need to arrive at Leamington Spa train station between the times of 9am and 9.45am. If you arrive outside this time, you will need to make your own way to the venue. Bus will depart at 3.30pm from British Motor Museum for Leamington Spa train station. It is recommended that if using a Sat Nav for directions you enter the British Motor Museum as a point of interest rather than using the postcode.

How to book

The registration form can be found on our website at the following link:
http://www.archives.org.uk/events/viewevent/409-making-your-archive-relevant-to-your-business-section-for-business-records-summer-workshop-2016.html

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