Archives
for London
An Open
invitation to our Launch event on Wednesday 6 July, London Metropolitan
Archives, 6pm
As many of
you may know, Archives for London (AfL) intends to provide a single focal point
for both practitioners and users of archives in London. It aims to build on
present good practice, information sharing and archive campaigns established by
GLAN, LAUF and other networking bodies, while providing greater coherence in
presenting the capital’s archives agenda to the outside
world.
The AfL
Steering Committee continues to nurture this new membership organisation into
existence. A Memorandum and Articles of Association have been drafted and
company and charity registration are in progress. Draft By-laws, establishing
the format of membership, subscriptions, voting rights and composition of the
AfL Board, Advisory Council and Sections, are also in their final stages of
preparation.
AfL aims to
be fully inclusive, welcoming any institutional and individual members from
records/information management, collection care/conservation, local studies
librarian, community archive, archive user and practitioner backgrounds who have
an interest in the Capital’s wider archives agenda.
The AfL
steering committee would like to invite you to a free launch event with wine and
nibbles on Wednesday 6 July 2005 from 6pm at London Metropolitan Archives, 40
Northampton Road, Clerkenwell. Please
contact Nicola Avery (details below) to ensure your name is included on the
invite list.
There will be a keynote
address by Lisa Jardine, Director of
the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL) at Queen Mary’s
College. An energetic and dynamic
user of archive sources who values the help she has received from London’s many
archivists and librarians, Lisa has published widely on feminist Shakespeare
criticism, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Christopher Wren, Robert
Hooke, East-West Renaissance cultural exchange and the rise of science. Lisa’s
current research focuses on Dutch influences in Britain during the reign of
William and Mary. Last Year she became a Trustee of the V&A and was awarded
a CBE. For further details see:
http://www.livesandletters.ac.uk/contacts/lisa.html
Individual
membership fees are intended to be an affordable £10 per annum. For those
joining at the launch event, initial individual membership fees will be reduced
to £5 for the period July 2005 –
March 2006, a bargain with just over 8 months membership benefits for a 6 month
membership fee pro rata. Details of institutional membership will be available
in our next update and at the launch event.
As
previously outlined, membership benefits for archive users and practitioners
include opportunities to:
****Look
out for details of AfL’s new website at www.archivesforlondon.org.***
To
obtain a ticket for the launch please contact: [log in to unmask]
c/o London
Metropolitan Archives
40 Northampton
Road
London
EC1R 0HB