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RESOURCE ARCHIVES TASK FORCE E-BULLETIN 4 Archives Task Force: report of fourth meeting Commissioned by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, the Archives Task Force is Resource's major archives project for 2002/2003. The Archives Task Force will report to the DCMS in winter 2003. The fourth meeting of the Task Force was held on 21st May at The National Archives, Kew. The venue provided Task Force members with an opportunity to see both the public face of The National Archives and behind the scenes. The Task Force considered papers on the following topics: * Education, training and development; * Archives, active citizenship and social capital; * Regional and national consultation: emerging findings of the ATF of the consultation programme - a call to action. Papers presented to the meeting and minutes of previous meetings are available on the Resource website. To view these pages please see www.resource.gov.uk <http://www.resource.gov.uk/> and follow the links to "Archives Task Force" from the "action" drop-down menu. Consultation phase The last of the consultation meetings took place on 30 May in Belfast. All of the events have been well attended with over 500 practitioners, users, managers, councillors and other stakeholders taking the opportunity to feed in their views. A first stage summary of outcomes form the consultation process was presented to the Task Force at their fourth meeting on 21st May. The ATF support team are now in the process of pulling together the meeting notes to prepare a national overview that will be submitted to the Archives Task Force. All papers will appear on the Resource website and the notes of the individual meetings will also be available for the Regional Archive Councils and Regional Agencies. On behalf of the Task Force, Resource has undertaken a substantial mailing to over 2,000 institutions, societies and organisations with an interest in the archive domain. This looks at some emerging viewpoints, and 10 key questions across the issues of: * A new vision for UK archives * Making archives and records management relevant * Seizing the digital opportunity * Training and skills * Partnerships for success We appreciate that these are broad issues, but they are the areas around which the Archives Task Force has concentrated its thinking, based on feedback from the archive sector. If you would like to take this opportunity to respond to the Task Force a copy of the letter is available on the Resource website or a hard copy is available from Mrs Batool Khan on archivestaskforce@resource <mailto:batool.khan@resource> or telephone 020 7273 1465. The consultation period for this written exercise closes on 1st August 2003. All comments will be acknowledged. Comments should be sent to: Mrs Batool Khan, Archives Task Force Team, Resource, 16, Queen Anne's Gate, London, SW1H 9AA. email: [log in to unmask] The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments is confidential. If you have received it in error, you are on notice of its status. It is intended solely for the addressee. Any unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately and delete the email and any attachments from the system.