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With apologies for any inconvenience caused by cross posting. sjaf ~~~~~~~ A2A Update, November 2000 Work on A2A funding applications to the Heritage Lottery Fund has proceeded during October. In the North West Region a consortium led by Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies Service intends to convert about 16,000 catalogue pages relating to the 15th-20th century archives of mutual and voluntary organisations ranging from guilds and trades unions to charities and climbing clubs, and of Protestant Nonconformist denominations such as the Society of Friends (Quakers) and the Methodist Church, in a project entitled Our Mutual Friends in the North. This regional A2A initiative will be complemented by the Greater Manchester series-level descriptive project which is being undertaken jointly by all ten district record offices and the Greater Manchester Record Office; finding aids from this project will be linked to A2A. A consortium of users of archives is preparing another A2A funding bid. The TRAP (Tracking Railway Archives Project) consortium is made up of representatives from various railway history societies, and aims to convert catalogues relating to railway company archives deposited in local record offices across England. This participation by archives users in A2A is very welcome: TRAP has the support of many archivists with relevant archives in their care. The project will complement other A2A initiatives in the Eastern and North East regions, whose remit includes archives relating to transport. The A2A website has been updated with information on authority controlled terms to be used to index catalogues submitted for retroconversion: see <http://www.pro.gov.uk/archives/A2A/AuthorityStandards.htm>. An example of a marked-up catalogue, with explanatory comments, can still be found at <http://www.pro.gov.uk/archives/A2A/a2aexampleofmarkup.htm>. For more information on these projects, email <[log in to unmask]>. A2A is a step towards a virtual national archives catalogue for England and will make available 8 million catalogue entries for archives dating from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries and held in national, local and specialist archives repositories on the www by March 2002. For more details on this retroconversion initiative, see <http://www.pro.gov.uk/archives/A2A/default.htm>. ~~~~~~~ * * * * * * Sarah J A Flynn Regional Liaison Co-Ordinator, A2A Public Record Office Kew Richmond Surrey TW9 4DU Tel (direct line): 020 8392 5328 Fax: 020 8878 8905 Email: [log in to unmask] www: http://www.pro.gov.uk/archives/A2A/default.htm * * * * * * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%