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This message is forwarded for information. I apologise if some of you have already seen it. sjaf > ---------- > From: Flynn, Sarah > Sent: 22 November 2001 10:27 > To: [log in to unmask] > Cc: [log in to unmask] > Subject: A2A Update, November 2001 > > With apologies for any inconvenience caused by cross-posting. sjaf > > ~~~~~ > > A2A Update, November 2001 > > The A2A website at <http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk> was updated again on > Wednesday 21 November. 2751 new catalogue files have been added to the > site, which now contains over 1.4m catalogue entries from 113 record > offices and other institutions across England. > The November update includes the first retroconverted electronic > catalogues submitted by three projects: *Governing London*, the West > Midlands project *Muck and Brass*, and *TRAP* (the Tracking Railway > Archives Project). The *Governing London* catalogues include finding aids > for local government archives relating to a range of locations in London, > held by three London boroughs, Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies > and London Metropolitan Archives. The catalogues submitted through *Muck > and Brass* cover selected estate and business archives held by the local > government archives services of Sandwell, Shropshire, Warwickshire and > Wolverhampton, and trades union and other archives held at the University > of Warwick's Modern Records Centre; while the catalogues from the *TRAP* > project include finding aids for the archives of six railway companies, > held at Greater Manchester County Record Office, and for railway archives > held at Northamptonshire Record Office - finding aids which have been > selected for A2A by TRAP members, who are all users of railway archives. > Further catalogues from the following projects have also been submitted: > *Access to Somerset Archives*, *From Landlord to Labourer* in the South > East Region, *London Archives on the Wider World*, and the *Political > Archives Consortium*. Other new A2A catalogues include those relating to > the archives of Petty Sessions and Quarter Sessions courts held by > Staffordshire Record Office, Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office and other > local authority archives services; and finding aids for a range of other > archives held by local authority and other archives institutions, > including Cambridge University Library's Department of Manuscripts and > University Archives, and Wirral Archives Service. > A2A is the English strand in the UK archives network and will make 8m > catalogue entries for archives dating from the 12th to the 20th centuries > and held in national, local and specialist archives available on the www > by March 2002 at <http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk>. > > > * * * * * * > 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 8392 5281 > Email: [log in to unmask] > www: http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk > > * * * * * * > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------