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SoA NW Business Archives Seminar and Drinks Reception

 Liverpool 17 October 2007

Western Rooms, Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, 6 Cathedral Close, St James Mount, Liverpool L1 7AZ

This seminar introduces current projects and recent successes in business archives in the North West. It is followed by news from repositories around the region and then the annual welcome party for newly-enrolled Liverpool University Centre for Archives Studies students.

Aims and Objectives

The seminar will be of interest to archivists who work in a business archive or who work in an archives service whose collections include business archives.

Programme

1.45                Registration

 

2.0           &n bsp;                          Maria Sienkiewicz, Group Archivist, Barclays Group Archives

Reputation: potential conflicts between access and corporate reputation

 

2.30                Claire Tunstall, Archivist and Records Manager, Unilever Archives

Project Apollo: the challenge of records management for Unilever plc

 

3.00                Coffee break

 

3.15                Gillian Lonergan, Learning Resources Manager and Archivist,

The Co-operative College

National Co-operative Archive - Creation to Designation

 

3.45                Laura Peaurt, Archivist, Special Collections & Archives, University of Liverpool

The Cunard Archive Project

 

4.25                Micheál Ó Conaire, Unilever Archives

Project Liberator: capturing archives when a company or business is sold

 

4.45           &n bsp;                     Close: coffee break

 

5.00                News from repositories

 

5.30                Nigel Hardman, Archivist, Alliance & Leicester

A Thirty-year Canter: celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the Society of Archivists North West region

 

6.00-8.00       Drinks reception to welcome the new Liverpool University Centre for Archives Studies students to the region

 

Charge

£7 for the seminar. There is no charge for the rest of the day. Please make cheques payable to Liverpool Cathedral Enterprises and send them to David Govier, Archivist, Manchester Archives and Local Studies, Central Library, St Peter’s Square, Manchester M2 5PD.

Booking

To book a place on the seminar or to register for the later activities please contact David Govier on [log in to unmask] or 0161 234 1980.