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Dear all, REMINDER!!! Please find below details of the forthcoming training event, for which places are still available. BOOK NOW!! Charlotte Berry SoA SW training officer ===================================================================== Society of Archivists: Southwest Region training event 'Managing information in a digital and legislative age': best practice overview and refresher workshop DORSET HISTORY CENTRE, DORCHESTER, Fri 16 March 2007 Target audience: • Newly qualified archivists and records managers wanting to acquire an overview of best practice and recent developments in these areas • Practising archivists and records managers wanting to refresh existing knowledge and to benefit from established best practice in the sectors • Practising archivists and records managers planning on implementing or obtaining more information on EDRM systems within a Local Authority Aims: • To gain an overview of how DP and FOI legislation are being approached in practice in the archive and records management sectors • To gain an overview of the basic issues behind digital preservation • To gain an overview of recent developments relating to digital records and how these are being introduced in practice into Local Authorities (including contributions from three leading Local Authorities currently deploying EDRM systems) Chair: Hugh Jaques, County Archivist, Dorset =================================================================== Programme 1000-1030 Registration and coffee/tea 1030-1100 Session One: Legal compliance: an overview Claire Skinner, Principal Archivist, Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office 1100-1145 Session Two: Data Protection and FOI in practice David Wilson, Dorset County Council, Data Protection Act Officer, and Richard Kirby, Dorset County Council, Records Management, Data Protection Act and Freedom of Information Manager 1145-1230 Session Three: Developing a Corporate File Plan David Reeve, Records Manager, Dorset County Council 1230-1245 Q&As, discussion and roundup 1245-1330 Lunch 1330-1445 Session Four: Deployment of EDRM systems in Dorset, Gloucestershire and Cornwall David Reeve, Records Manager, Dorset County Council Nigel Wratten, Head of Information Management Service, Gloucestershire County Council Pam O'Hanlon, Enterprise Information Manager, Cornwall County Council 1445-1530 Session Five: Digital preservation: current issues and debate Ed Pinsent, University of London Computer Centre 1530-1545 Coffee/tea 1545-1630 Session Six: Discussion session (in groups with feedback); Q&As; close ===================================================================== Booking information: Course fee (SoA member) £35.00 Course fee (non-SoA member) £45.00 NB Many thanks to MLA Southwest for providing sponsorship for this event, therefore minimising the delegate course fee. To book, please use the online booking form available on the SoA website. See under 'Downloads' on the homepage at www.archives.org.uk Email this form to [log in to unmask] or post a print copy to the Society office at: Society of Archivists Prioryfield House 20 Canon Street Taunton TA1 1SW Full details will then be sent out to you. Further information: Please contact the SoA SW regional training officers Charlotte Berry ([log in to unmask]) and Daniel Williams ([log in to unmask]) if you require any further information about this training event. -- Charlotte Berry Archivist Special Collections Old Library University of Exeter Prince of Wales Road EXETER EX4 4SB UK Tel: 01392 263879 (direct) or 01392 262096 Fax: 01392 263871