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Dear colleagues A joint one-day conference of the Business Archives Council; Business Archives Council Scotland; Business Records Group of the Society of Archivists; and Section on Business and Labour Archives of the International Council on Archives is to be held in Edinburgh on Friday 17 November with the aim of bringing together archivists from the UK and across the world to discuss issues of common concern. Titled Managing Business Archives: A Global Perspective, the conference should have wide appeal and covers globalisation, digital records and access as well as looking at how the historical records of business are handled within national archive networks in other countries. The speakers include eminent archivists and academics from the UK and overseas. The main sessions are as follows: Globalisation - managing archives and heritage overseas: * Building a regional archive for HSBC in Hong Kong - Helen Swinnerton, HSBC Asia Pacific Archives * Managing the archives of St Gobain beyond France - Didier Bondue, St Gobain Archives, France * Archives as assets of an international brand based business - Becky Haglund Tousey, Kraft Foods, USA * How the archive supports Diageo's global premium drinks business - Jennifer Birnie, Diageo Digital records - a universal issue: * The inertia of large problems: digital records preservation in business - Peter Emmerson, Emmerson Consulting * Digital Preservation Europe: a preservation initiative built on ERPANET - Dr Seamus Ross, University of Glasgow Different solutions - managing the records of business across the world: How well have different strategies worked and what are the newest initiatives? A panel-based discussion session with contributions by representatives from countries pursuing varied national solutions for managing the historical records of business including: Matti Lakio, Finland; Christian Jansen, Denmark; Robert Brown, UK; and Karl-Peter Ellerbrook, Germany. Access - serving diverse user communities: * From virtual museum to actual museum: accessing the Sainsbury Archive at the Museum in Docklands - Clare Bunkham, The Sainsbury Archive * 'Connected Earth' and BT's Heritage Policy - widening access to a business historical collection within a corporate responsibility programme - David Hay, BT * The virtual archive: creating and promoting Prudential's memory map - David Carter, Prudential The event is to be held at the new conference centre of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group at RBS Gogarburn close to the city's airport on the western outskirts of Edinburgh. Applications are invited as soon as possible. The conference delegate cost is £50 per person and includes lunch. A full conference programme and booking form can be downloaded from the websites of the Society of Archivists (at http://www.archives.org.uk/thesociety/specialinterestgroups/businessrecordsgroup/trainingevents.html ) For further information on the conference or to obtain a booking form please contact Alison Turton, conference co-ordinator, on 020 7615 6126 or via [log in to unmask] ********************************************************************** This email is privileged, confidential and subject to copyright. Any unauthorised use or disclosure of its content is prohibited. The views expressed in this communication may not necessarily be the views held by Scottish Borders Council. Please be aware that any email sent or received by the Council may require to be disclosed by the Council under the provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. **********************************************************************