Dear All
Further to David's message and forwarded e-mail. For information,
mda is to be involved in a new core group (still unnamed) to look at
retrspective catalogue conversion across museums, libraries and
archives.
Louise
Date sent: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:28:31 +0100
Subject: FW: Full Disclosure
From: David Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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> 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
>
>
> > ----------
> > 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
> >
Louise Smith
Director
mda
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