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I am not wishing to stir up the controversy over Job Applications any further, not even on a Bank Holiday Friday, but I would warmly support Janice Taylor's suggestion of Regional Cataloguing Units. Such units might well give continuity of employment to those who wished to specialise in this area, whether early in their careers or (as in my case) pretty much at the end of them! And how else are we going to set up a mechanism, once and for all, to get on top of the inherited backlogs which continue to dog so many repositories? Can we be said to be really giving Best Value until we have an answer in place for this problem? Obsessive, of Shrewsbury (aka David Jones) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janice Taylor" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 3:55 AM Subject: Job Applications > I have been watching the job application discussion with some interest and > wonder if we need to look at the problem from a different angle. Many > archive services are unable to obtain the core funding they require to > catalogue their collections. They are however, able to obtain short term > project funding for cataloguing and retrospective conversion such as > A2A.However we are unable to fill such short term posts with suitable staff. > > I would suggest that this is a matter which could be tackled in the future > by the Regional Archive Councils/future joint bodies. Regional cataloguing > units could be set up, with the aim that they could carry out project work, > primarily funded by project grants, for a number of archive services. Staff > could be employed by the RACs on semi permanent contracts and seconded to > the projects, which would certainly be more attractive to job applicants. > > Of course this does not solve the long term problem of a lack of core > funding for archive services, but perhpas it would allow services to take > advantage of the opportunities of project funding ? Is this a viable idea? > > Janice Taylor > Wirral Archives