This report was funded to look at Libraries and Archives, but at a very
late stage (after a meeting in May attended by Bruce Royan and I)
museums have also been included in a general way.
The report is aiming to secure money to digitise library and archive
finding aids - equivalent to computerising existing museum catalogue
cards and accession registers, rather than creating records entirely
from scratch. However, this may be the start of a process ....
D
David Dawson
Museums New Technology Adviser, Museums and Galleries Commission
tel: 0171 233 4200, email: [log in to unmask]
See the MGC Website at www.museums.gov.uk
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> From: NICK & MARY KINGSLEY[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Reply To: NICK & MARY KINGSLEY
> Sent: 05 July 1999 16:57
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Full Disclosure
>
> Dear Colleagues
>
> The study on a national strategy for retrospective conversion of
> library and
> archive catalogues, (undertaken by UKOLN and the National Council on
> Archives) was completed at the end of May 1999.
>
> A report on the study, including recommendations for a national
> strategy,
> was submitted to the commissioning group (BL, LIC and LINC) and
> accepted.
>
> The report title is 'Full Disclosure: releasing the value of library
> and
> archive collections'. A copy of the full text of the report (in pdf
> format)
> is now available at the UKOLN website at the following URL:
>
> http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/lic/fulldisclosure/report.pdf
>
> A printed version of the report is in preparation and details of its
> availability will be circulated when they are known.
>
> Nick Kingsley
>
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